The siblings of one Akeem Oluwaseun Akinyemi have raised the alarm over his disappearance from home after he miraculously escaped from kidnappers.
According to Mr Dapo Akinyemi,a Mechanical Engineer, who spoke on behalf of the family, one morning, some time in year 2015, the family woke up to the sad reality of their missing brother, Akeem Oluwaseun Akinyemi.
Speaking at a media parley, organized by the family to inform the public about the disappearance of Akeem, Dapo said among other life threatening instances, that morning , it dawned on them that something may have happened to Akeem because he did not return home from work the previous night.
” We informed the police in our Ibafo, Ogun State area and combed the neighbouring communities for him unsuccessfully for two days.
” It was a temporary relief for the family on the second day of the search when we got a message from Zone 2 Police Headquarters Onikan, to come and identify one Akeem a victim of random kidnap operation who gave my name as his brother.
” We moved in quickly and brought my brother home after we identified him to the police after the police told us he was a victim of a Kidnap operation between Ibafo and Ikeja area of Lagos.
” As details of the incident was later relayed, Akeem was kidnapped along with 3 other occupants in the vehicle he boarded to work. They were blindfolded and taken to an unknown place where one of the victims was eventually killed for ritual purposes.
” Akeem became the automatic next target to be eliminated because being a Christian , his first name, Akeem, gave him away as a converted Muslim, a revelation which angered his captors who were Muslim fundamentalists. They quarried his guts to continue to answer a Muslim name Akeem while he is actually a Christian”
Apparently the kidnapers did not like the idea of one of them becoming a Christian, hence Akeem was severely tortured and one of his fingers broken.
The family spokesperson explained that Akeem informed the police in the statement he wrote later, that the kidnappers slept off while awaiting further directive from their superiors on the fate of the remaining victims, who seized the opportunity, with the other victims, to escape from their den while the captors were sleeping.
Events took a new turn however, when few weeks after the escape, Akeem disappeared from home again, thus prompting the family members to raise the alarm over their brother’s disappearance.
” It’s been years now since we have been visiting the police station for update on Akinyemi’s situation and nobody has been able to tell us where he is, that’s why we are crying out to the public to help us plead with the authorities to help get Akeem out of whatever danger he may be in, because prior to his disappearance from home, he was always talking about threat messages he received from time to time”
Akeem’s brother described him as an easy going, hardworking man who ensured the family lacked nothing.
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