.Auto Crash Saves Woman From Kidnappers

                                        

Copied from Punch newspaper

Annabel Erikowa, 26, escaped from her abductors on Friday when the vehicle in which she was being conveyed got involved in an accident around Ofosu, a boundary town between Ondo and Edo states.

Erikowa, who works in her father’s resort located at the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State, was kidnapped by four gunmen last week. The kidnappers were heading for an unknown destination when their vehicle crashed on the Lagos-Benin Expressway.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations in Edo State, Mr. Agberebi Egbuson, said the police in Iguobazuwa Division rushed to the scene of the accident after receiving a distress call.

He said the policemen were however amazed when four of the five accident victims they were supposed to rescue took to their heels on sighting them.

He said, “When the policemen approached the scene, four young men in the vehicle took to their heels and a young woman was found inside. Later, we realised that the men were actually kidnappers.”

Narrating her ordeal in the hands of her abductors, Erikowa said she was in her father’s hotel in Lagos when the gunmen forced her into a waiting vehicle and blindfolded her before embarking on the journey.

But she could not explain what led to the accident or where it occurred.