My experience in kidnappers' den — Monarch
THE 66-year-old traditional ruler, the Oloso of Oso in Ajowa-Akoko, Akoko area of Ondo State, Oba Clement Olukotun, has described the 10 days he spent in the kidnappers’ den as traumatic. Oba Olukotun, who is the chairman of Ajowa Traditional Council of Obas, was released after his subjects paid N10 million ransom. It would be recalled that the monarch was humiliated before he was abducted by six gunmen, who invaded his palace for the abduction. They fired several gunshots at the palace door and walls before they could access the monarch’s inner chambers, where they dragged him before whisking him away to an unknown destination. A sum of N100 million was initially demanded by the kidnappers as ransom before the monarch could be released, but the family begged and it was reduced to N10 million. Speaking with newsmen at his palace, the monarch said the traumatic experience he had inside the forest made him remain silent Oba Olukotun said: “My domain is a special area, being a border town...