The female pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Mrs. Chidinma Ibelegbu, one of the four victims kidnapped near Ijebu-Ode on Thursday said she trekked for three hours in the bush to escape her abductors.
She also identified their abductors as herdsmen.
Ibelegbu, who shared her testimony on Saturday night at the ongoing Ministers’ Conference at RCCG Camp, said she prayed to God to make her captors fall asleep and when her prayer was answered, she sneaked out of the kidnappers’ den.
According to her, she escaped while they were sleeping and trekked for 3 hours in the bush.
Mrs. Ibelegbu, a deaconess from Abia State RCCG 3, and four others were kidnapped on Ore-Lagos Expressway.
According to the Police, the abductors emerged from the forest and forcefully stopped a commercial vehicle with the number plate KW 230 XA belonging to Abia Line Transport Company and took the passengers into the forest.
Ibelegbu was quoted as telling the gathering of ministers: “Almost immediately we reached what appeared to be the camp of our kidnappers, they all fell asleep. Same with the other victims. But I kept awake.
“When I saw how deep everyone was snoring, I braved the odds and made a bid for my escape.
“I walked for about three hours, non-stop, until I made it to the road, where I saw an Okada (commercial motorcycle) operator.
“I explained my predicament to him, and he volunteered to help me to a Police checkpoint not far from where I had emerged from the forest.
“The policemen took me to the Ogun State Police Command, where I provided useful information that led to the rescue of the four remaining victims.”
Meanwhile, General Overseer of the RCCG Enoch Adeboye said investigation revealed that only one of the five kidnap victims was RCCG pastor, noting that the other four were not church members.
