A rescued National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, David Ayodele, recounts how he and 14 other abductees were held by kidnappers in a forest in Kogi State. Ayodele says the abductors beat the victims, including flogging and kicking them, and then threatened that they would be kept in the forest for about a month and killed.
The reports describe an ordeal that ends with the group’s rescue, after which Ayodele speaks about what he experienced while in captivity. Premium Times and Vanguard both feature his account, including the claim that the kidnappers issued threats of death and a prolonged stay in the forest. Vanguard presents the story through a video report, while Premium Times summarizes the testimony in text form. The accounts focus on the alleged treatment of the victims and the timeline given by the kidnappers rather than on detailed information about the rescue operation or the kidnappers’ identities.
