'Situation in Captivity is Terrible' - Freed Victim of Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack (video)
A the newly released captive of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, Professor Mustapha Imam has recounted his ordeal in the terrorists’ den describing the situation as terrible.
imam spoke on Tuesday after the terrorists released 5 of the passengers including him after 4 months. One female and 4 males were set free.
The passengers were kidnapped during the March 28 attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train.
Speaking about the ordeal of the captives, Imam, an associate professor of medical biochemistry at the Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto said that what they went through in the hands of their abductors could only be described as terrible.
He added that it was an experience he will not wish for even his enemy.
According to him, in the first three and half months in the kidnappers’ den, they were barely given food to eat, and many of them were sick and without medical care.
He added that it was only in about the last two weeks before their freedom that they got food to eat.
He shared his experience in a video uploaded on social media by a former negotiator for their release, Tukur Mamu.
Prof Imam said: “My experience is terrible. You can see, I just finished shedding tears of joy. I am happy that I am free and would be reunited with my family very very soon.”
“The experience I have been through in the last four months is not something that I will wish on my enemy. The situation was really terrible.
“In the last two weeks, we were okay. But for the three and a half months, we were actually very very hungry. There were days we ate once in a day.
“I was the medical doctor in the camp. I was treating captives as well as the bandits.
There was no medication in the camp. There was a lady who went into coma because there was no medication to treat her of malaria.”
Imam pleaded with the government to urgently step in and secure the release of others still in captivity.
“I will like to call on government to take whatever necessary steps to ensure the release of the remaining people.”
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