My 17 Day Ordeal In Kidnappers’ Den, Nitabai, Jonathan’s Uncle, Narrates
Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year-old uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan, Thursday narrated his ordeal in the hands of kidnappers to journalists in Bayelsa. Mr. Nitabai, who described his experience as "traumatic," said he was beaten with a gun butt and kicked on the floor by his abductors. The septuagenarian, who was also Mr. Jonathan's foster father, was abducted by about 10 gunmen at his home in Otuoke on February 23. He said the armed men tied his wrists, blind folded him and tortured him in order to make him convince the President and other family members to pay up the ransom demanded. "I thank God for keeping me alive. I was made to sleep on the bare floor and fed with garri and red oil for three weeks in the bush. I was tortured and beaten with guns and kicked. When I was young, there was no such thing as kidnapping; I don't know why it must be me," Mr. Nitabai said. The Bayelsa State Police Commissioner, Hilary Opara, while presenting Mr. Nitabai t...