Kidnapped Epe Pupils: Parents hold thanksgiving, share testimonies

A 2-hours thanksgiving service was held at Dolphin Senior Secondary School, Sura area of Lagos State, by Parents of six freed Epe pupils of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla in which they shared testimonies.
The pupils – Peter Jonah, Isiaq Rahmon, Adebayo George, Judah Agbausi, Pelumi Philips and Farouq Yusuf – were dropped in a creek in Ondo State last Friday after the kidnappers collected another N5m, were reunited with their parents after taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, for medical tests






Punch reports that parents and relatives of the freed pupils thronged Dolphin Secondary School hall, thanking God for their safe return after 64 days in the kidnappers’ den.
Although the parents did not officially speak with journalists, they freely gave their testimonies.

One of them, Morufu Ramon, said, “My son said there was a time he called me with the mobile phone of one of the kidnappers, who forgot his phone and went somewhere. He wanted to ask me if they should escape, but I missed his call. I would have advised them to escape. “He said there was also a time the kidnappers went out for four days and left one person behind to look after them. He said the man slept off and they thought of escaping with his gun.”

Another parent, Beatrice Peter, said she was slapped by one of the kidnappers in one of the occasions, when they went to pay ransom.
She added that the kidnappers collected the money around Igbonla.