Others Were Accepted but I was Rejected Thrice at Ritualists’ Den – Rivers’ Abducted Nurse

 

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.