A 14-year-old boy, Felix Adekunle, who was kidnapped on Monday says his escape from the den of bandits a few hours after his abduction was a miracle.

Narrating his experience, Adekunle reminisced how he was abducted by some men who were inside a tinted Toyota Camry car on Monday afternoon while he was hawking slippers at Okemoko area of Owo town in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.

“It happened on Monday while I was selling slippers after school hours. I decided to go to the market area to sell. I passed through Okemoko road which is a shorter route to the market. As I was going, I saw three men in a Toyota Camry car that told me one of my products had fallen down.

“I quickly dropped the products from my head to check but I couldn’t find anything. Suddenly, the men just got down from the car and dragged me into the vehicle and I became unconscious.

“I later found myself in a dilapidated blue bungalow in a forest. I don’t know the name of that area. Inside the building, I saw a woman crying with her hands tied to the back and I also a headless body of a young person in the building

“I asked the woman, whom the headless person was and she responded that it was her child. At that moment, I was hearing the men’s voices at another apartment inside the house. So later the woman told me to untie the rope she was tied up with and we fled together.

“While fleeing, the woman fell. She called me back and gave me N500 and said I should keep running and never look back. I heard gunshots from the house while I was escaping, I had to run faster.

“So later I got to the main road and, I saw some people selling bread by the roadside and narrated my ordeal to them. They called the police but there was no response and later got the Amotekun who responded swiftly and took me to their office,” he narrated.

The mother of the victim, Mrs Abosede Adekunle, also said she had been searching for the boy when he failed to return home as usual.

According to her, she almost concluded that he probably lost money from his sales and refused to come back.

She, however, said that she was shocked to receive a call from the office of the Amotekun, informing me that my boy had been kidnapped but had been rescued.

“I was surprised to receive a call from Amotekun that I should come and pick my son that was rescued from the kidnappers. I thank the Ondo State Government for setting up such an agency to take care of situations like this.

“When I got to their office, I met my son in good condition as the officers have fed him even before my arrival,” Mrs Adekunle stated.

Speaking about the incident, while handing over the victim to his mother, at the command’s headquarters in Akure, the state capital, the Commander of the Amotekun Corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye said the command got a distress call that some vehicles drove recklessly along Benin/Owo expressway.

According to the commander, while tracing the reckless vehicles on the road, the men of the corps saw the young boy on the road who narrated his ordeal to them and he was immediately taken to the Amotekun office in Akure.

“The victim explained that the only thing he could remember was a Camry car without a number plate with having tinted glasses. He added that he became unconscious immediately he was pushed into the car.

“He explained to us that the area, where he was kidnapped was isolated as he could not call on anyone. We took him away from the danger zone to our office where he narrated his experience that three men tricked him as a slippers seller that one of his goods has fallen off and dragged him into their vehicle and zoomed off to an unknown place as he escaped from the place,” Adeleye said.

The Amotekun boss warned the parents and guidance not to send their wards to dangerous places and every individual in the state should be security conscious everywhere they go.

He also declared that the corps would not relent in its efforts to curb all acts of criminality in the state.