An 18-year-old auxiliary nurse, Rachael
David, has relived her close shave with
Death at a suspected ritual killers’ den
in Rivers State after she was kidnapped
at Okuru Junction, Port Harcourt.
Rachael, who is currently receiving
treatment in a hospital, regained her
freedom around 5pm on Friday. Sunday
Punch learnt that the teenager had gone
to buy something at the junction around
7am on Thursday and was returning
home when a motorist signaled to her,
asking for direction to Bitter
Leave Junction.
She said as she was describing the place
to the driver, she was hypnotized and
lost her senses until she arrived at an
unknown destination.
David explained, “I went to get
something at Okuru Junction that
Thursday morning before going to
work. I didn’t get what I went to buy.
While I was returning home, a driver
blew the car horn to call my attention
and I stopped. A lady was at the back
of the car. He asked me if I know any
place called Bitter Leave Junction and I
said yes. As I was trying to direct him,
he said he couldn’t hear me clearly and
told me to come closer.
“He touched me and I didn’t know if I
entered the car or not. By the time I
regained consciousness, I was already
in an unknown place. They had
blindfolded me and tied my hands. I
couldn’t tell the time of the day.”
The teenager stated that the abductors
took her and some other victims to a
gang suspected to be ritual killers,
adding that all but her were accepted.
She said on Friday morning, the
kidnappers took her and another set of
victims to a spot while they remained
blindfolded.
David recalled, “I was still rejected.
After some hours, they took me and
some victims somewhere blindfolded.
One man asked them why they kept
bringing me and told them to return me
to where they picked me as fast as possible.
Even though I couldn’t see what was
going on in that place, it appears like a
ritual killers’ den. I was the only person
they rejected. I was rejected thrice.
While I was in captivity, new victims
were brought in. The abductors put me
in the car and drove off. When we got
to a spot along the road, they stopped,
removed the blindfold and pushed me
out of the car.”
David said she managed to untie himself
and later found out from passersby that
she was at Rumuokoro, Port Harcourt.
“The kidnappers didn’t take away my
phone so I quickly called my mum. I
had fainted before they came. It was
this morning (Saturday) when I woke
up that I realised I am in the hospital,”
she added.
David’s elder sister, Joy, told Sunday
Punch that the family was excited to
see her again, noting that the incident
was reported at the Amadi Police
Division.
She said, “She was unconscious when
we found her. Policemen followed us to
pick her up at Rumuokoro where she
was abandoned. She went to buy a pad
at Okuru Junction when the motorists
stopped her.”
The Rivers State police spokesperson,
Nnamdi Omoni, did not pick up our
correspondent’s calls and had yet to
reply to a text message sent to him on
the incident as of press time.
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