05/08/2025
Those Who Abducted Us Spoke Tiv —Freed Law School Student Reveals
A Nigerian Law School student, David Obiora, who was kidnapped alongside others on July 26, 2025, has clarified that those who abducted them spoke Tiv language.
In a WhatsApp interview with Vanguard, Obiora recounted his ordeal, refuting claims by the Nigeria Police that he and five other students were rescued by security operatives in Benue State.
Obiora, a law student at the Nigerian Law School, Yola campus, explained that they were abducted along the Zakibiam-Mukari Expressway after boarding a company transport vehicle from Onitsha en route to Yola.
He said: “We were six law students in the bus with the driver, three other passengers heading to Cameroon, and a woman, who works in Anambra State, who was going on holiday to Yola.
We were kidnapped about 9 p.m., on July 26. The incident happened between Zakibiam and Mukari, near a town called Jootar. We were taken 20 kilometres into the bush by about 10 armed men, four wielding AK-47 rifles, the others with machetes and daggers.
They drove the bus deep into the bush until it got stuck. They then called for reinforcement and more members arrived on motorcycles. We were moved deeper into the forest before arriving at a halt, where we met four other victims, a non-teaching staff of Federal University Wukari, a youth corps member named Dauda Wisdom a pastor, who had just undergone surgery in Benue State, and another unidentified man. We were held for six days before we were released after each of us paid N10 million in ransom.”
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