The abductors of media personality, Anthony Akatakpo popularly known as Akas Baba, have revealed why he was not killed in their custody.
Akas Baba was a staff of Cool/Wazobia FM station, Port Harcourt in Rivers State when he was shot in the leg and abducted on March 13, 2014, in Port Harcourt.
The Rivers State Police Command confirmed his release on March 20, 2014.
The spokesperson of the command, Grace Iringe-Koko said the police was not aware if any ransom was paid for his release.
Meanwhile, another kidnapping survivor, Agnes Dandison-Jaja, has disclosed what she was told by her abductors about Akas Baba.
Agnes Dandison-Jaja told The Punch that she was travelling with her three children from Lagos to Port Harcourt when she was abducted alongside 10 others from a bus on December 27, 2022.
Dandison-Jaja said that the kidnappers informed her that they were behind Akas Baba’s abduction.
She said, “On the third day, which is on the 29th, my sister called the number they called her with. She begged them to spare us and that she could only raise N20,000. I then told them to check my contact so that I could call my pastor because there is no way anyone would come up with the money. They asked which church I attended. I told them the Redeemed Christian Church of God. They declined the request. They said a lady who they kidnapped that attended Deeper Life had requested that they call her pastor, who started praying for them and they began to feel a burning sensation in their bodies, which led them to dump the girl by the roadside.
“They offered to release my children, kill me and sell my body parts but I begged them. After a while, the leader of the gang came to me and said he liked me because of my honesty. He said they had also not beaten me but if I remove my blindfold and see the way they had beaten others, I would pity them.
“He then said they had decided to let me go. Immediately, I said ‘thank you sir, God bless you sir’. He said I was also very respectful. They told us that they were the ones who kidnapped Akas Baba of Wazobia FM in Port Harcourt and that he was very cooperative, loyal and respectful. That was why they did not kill him.”
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