A former Minister of State for Education, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, tells SAMUEL AWOYINFA her ordeal in the hands of her abductors
What were you doing on the farm when you were kidnapped?
It rained the previous day, and so I thought that it would be good to go and plant maize on the farm, because the soil would have been softened.
It was reported that when you were abducted by a four-man gang wielding guns and swords, they took you away on a commercial motorcycle, using a hood to cover your head. How true is this?
That is true. They put me on their motorcycle, they used a cloth to cover my face, but I told them that I could no longer see. They then used the farm cap I put on to cover my face.
Don’t you think these people may have been trailing you for some time?
The kingpin of the gang told me that they had been trailing me for about two months before they finally succeeded in abducting me.
Did they tell you the reason you were kidnapped?
Yes, their kingpin said they heard that I was very rich. They said they were told I had houses in London, Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State. They even said I had foreign accounts. But I told them I don’t have any house in Lagos and that I don’t have any foreign account.
They told me I was a former Senator and a former minister, and they wanted to share out of my wealth. But I told them I was a minister over 20 years ago and did not loot the treasury. I also told them that I was a senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District at the Senate between 2003 and 2007. I told them I am now a farmer.
