The Edo State House of Assembly member representing Esan Central, Mr Victor Edoror, who was kidnapped on 3 February, 2013, has been released.
Mr. Edoror was released on Saturday by his captors, and has since reunited with his family.
It will be recalled that Mr. Edoror was kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, after he attended a meeting at his constituency in Edo Central.
It was learnt that the suspected kidnappers request to the family to pay ransom in dollars delayed his release. He spent thirteen days with his abductors.
While speaking to newsmen in Benin City, Edoror repeatedly thanked God for his life. He revealed that his abductors abandoned him at a village close to Abraka in Delta State.
The Lawmaker recalled the painful memory of feeding on eba without meat during his captivity.
Edoror narrated: “I went to my constituency. As I was coming to Benin that Sunday, I was abducted by the kidnappers. The abductors came in a Jeep and a car and took me and my driver. I was blindfolded immediately. I don’t know where I was taken to. I was driven in their own car while my driver was taken in my own car.
“They tied me with rope until today which is about 14 days I was blind folded. At the time they were taking me, they were about eight, fully armed. I had a licensed double barrel gun with me but what could I do with it in that kind of situation?” he said.
He added: “I was humiliated, beaten, and kept in a cubicle. They said they had been monitoring me; they trailed me all the way from Irrua. They said they were sent to kill me but, because of what they saw in me, they decided to spare my life.
“I fed once a day on miserable ‘eba’. But all the same I needed to eat to stay alive. Initially they demanded N90 million, but they knew there was no way I could provide that money. I pleaded with them and it got to a point where I was ready to die because my family is very poor and could not raise such money.
“The money they demanded, all my family, put together, could not spend that money to feed in their entire lives. I think they (kidnappers) were tired and they just left me go. I was dropped around Abraka in Delta State. I didn’t know the place. I had to beg a Good Samaritan that took me to Abraka town where I chartered a taxi that dropped me at the legislative quarters.”
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