The elder statesman, who was kidnapped
on his farm in Ilado village, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo
State, on September 21 and freed on September 24, 2015, noted that he
survived the abduction through the grace of God as the abductors
attempted to take his life during the captivity .
He
stated this while narrating his ordeal in the kidnappers’ den to the
immediate former Minster for Education, Mallam Abubakar Shekarau, who
paid him a visit to sympathise with him over the incident.
“God has a way of doing His things. I
know God just decided to spare my life. God really saved my life. They
tortured me, stripped me naked and did a lot of things to me in their
den. They attempted to kill me, but they did not succeed.
“I also thank God for making me to
survive the ordeal, because if they had killed me there, many lives
would have been lost too. It would have become an ethnic war between the
Yoruba and the Fulani. So, I thank God that the matter did not get to
that level.”
He
stated this while narrating his ordeal in the kidnappers’ den to the
immediate former Minster for Education, Mallam Abubakar Shekarau, who
paid him a visit to sympathise with him over the incident.
“God has a way of doing His things. I
know God just decided to spare my life. God really saved my life. They
tortured me, stripped me naked and did a lot of things to me in their
den. They attempted to kill me, but they did not succeed.
“I also thank God for making me to
survive the ordeal, because if they had killed me there, many lives
would have been lost too. It would have become an ethnic war between the
Yoruba and the Fulani. So, I thank God that the matter did not get to
that level.”
Expressing his sympathy to the former
Minister of Finance, Mallam Shekarau said the only solution to the
security challenges in the country was for the people of the country to
embrace community policing, whereby everyone would be a policeman in the
community.
The former governor of Kano State said
there was a need for government at all levels in the country to
encourage community policing, noting that the regular policemen could
not do it alone.
“The issue of security should be the
concern of everybody; not only the policemen alone. Our governments
should do everything possible to encourage community policing. Everybody
should be a policeman; everybody should be his brother’s keeper. We
should learn how to immediately report any act criminality to the
security.
“It is very unfortunate that this kind
of thing happened to an elderly man like Chief Falae, who has served
this country meritoriously,” the former Presidential candidate stressed.
Credit: Punch
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