A Lagos-based furniture maker, Tobiloba Samuel Omoosumi, aka, Toby Woods, has narrated his experience in the hands of kidnappers.
He narrated how he boarded a mini bus in Lagos but ended waking up in a confused state in Ogun State.
It may be recalled that, on February 10, the 24-year-old furniture maker who lives with his elder brother was declared missing via an X post, with phone numbers that anyone that sighted him could call.
His family said he had disappeared around the Gbagada area of Lagos State.
However, in a series of tweets on his X account on Tuesday evening, Toby Woods, who runs a furniture business, 360 Furniture, explained how he was abducted in a bus and how he managed to escape
“On Wednesday afternoon, I left my house to get materials for work at Mushin. When I got to Oshodi, I decided to go to Ikeja first to fix my phone’s charging port issue, which I’ve been procrastinating to repair for a while.
“I entered a bus (korope) at Oshodi going to Ikeja. People were also in the bus, but a few minutes later, I noticed that I became weak. I thought I was hungry because I haven’t had anything to eat all day.
“That was the end. Next thing I woke up tied and covered with a cloth covering my face. I heard people’s voices around, I don’t know how many people were there with me because my face was covered.
“We were taken one by one to another room where they had access to our phones and we were taken back to the initial room.
“I was really scared at this point because I thought this was the end. They took me, too, and I felt the same weakness I felt in the bus.
“Next thing I woke up in the middle of nowhere with blood on my clothes and few cuts on my body.
“God led me out to a house and I met an old woman. I hardly understood her but she saw my condition and she gave me water to drink and slippers to wear and showed me the way to the road.
“I didn’t have any idea I was gone for this long because my face was covered throughout the time I was abducted. I also didn’t have any idea what time was.
“I stopped the first person I saw and he helped me and told me I was in Ogun State. He helped me find my way to Lagos and I entered a bus going to Oshodi.
“A stranger helped me pay my transport fare and gave me some money, too, because I explained everything to him. I made a call too to a number I could remember but it didn’t go through.
“I slept throughout the journey and when I got to Oshodi, I knew I was safe already. I entered a bus heading to Ikorodu and I alighted at Agric where I got something to eat out of the money the stranger gave me. I took a bike home and I was told I got home around 12am.”
One #HassanSZNN who had also shared reports on X that Toby Wood was missing, confirmed that he has returned home.
He posted on X, “It is with great joy that I announce to you all that our brother and friend Oluwatobiloba Omoosumi Samuel – Tobywood has returned to us.”
