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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
An Aba-based businessman, Kingsley Njoku, his wife and their child cheated death when they miraculously survived a barrage of gunshots fired by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.
Narrating their ordeal, Njoku, a member of the John 3:16 Ministry in Aba, Abia State, said they had attended a service in the ministry after which they went for a family meeting.
Njoku said after the meeting, they were driving home in his Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) around 8 p.m. when, on getting to the Obuzor Primary School area of Osisioma, six young men wearing military camouflage and riding on three motorcycles overtook their vehicle and flagged them down.
The businessman said the hoodlums approached him on the driver’s side and asked him to come down and allow them to move away with his wife and child, but he refused.
“My refusal to come down infuriated the gunmen and they opened fire on the three of us inside the vehicle — myself, my wife and our child.
“My wife became so afraid and was pressurising me to get down, but I refused, telling her that if no member of the John 3:16 Ministry was kidnapped when Aba was under siege by kidnappers, it is not now that anybody will kidnap me or any member of my family.”
Njoku said when the gunman who blocked his vehicle came to try his own gun on him after others had failed, he saw a little opportunity and zoomed off in his SUV.
“I knew within me that the hoodlums would not do me anything, especially as it was not long after I came out from our ministry where the founder, Brother Samuel Okonkwo Ajayi, had prayed for us.”
He recalled an incident during the heyday of kidnapping in Aba when one of the police drivers of former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, was abducted in Aba and police authorities approached Bro. Samuel to assist in using spiritual powers to locate the policeman.
Njoku said after prayers, the location where the police inspector was kept in a house in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of the state was revealed to the man of God, leading to the rescue of the kidnapped officer.
The businessman said with such in mind, the same spirit made him withstand the gunmen.
Reports said there was pandemonium in the area during the incident as residents scampered for safety after hearing gunshots.
The gunmen were later said to have fled unchallenged.
