Men of the Nigerian Navy on Thursday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, rescued a female kidnap victim abandoned by her abductors in the creeks.

Commander of Nigerian Navy Base in Yenagoa, Yakuku Wanbai, a Commodore, who announced this to journalists in Yenagoa, shortly before handing her over to the police, said that the lady was kidnapped around 2.00 am from Angiama-Gbene community.

The Navy Commodore explained that his men who were on patrol of waterways got a distress call and immediately headed for the community where they met the kidnappers whose speedboat had developed a fault.

Upon siting the naval men, the kidnappers abandoned the victim and fled.

“My men rescued the woman and brought her to the base and in line with the existing inter agency cooperation we are handing the woman over to the Police for preliminary investigations and re-uniting her with the family,” Wanbai stated.

Speaking about her ordeal, the lady, Tokoni TrustGod, told journalists at the Naval Base in Yenagoa that there were five kidnappers, all armed with gun and machetes, and that they invaded her residence at Angiama Gbene in the early hours of Thursday and abducted only her. They asked her if she was sister to a Professor Millionaire Ambowei, her brother – in – law, and even though she said she was not, they took her away.

TrustGod recounted her harrowing experience in the hands of the kidnappers which lasted for several hours.

“They broke into the house and asked me if I was Professor Millionaire Ambowei’s sister and I told them that I wasn’t, they said that I was lying and took me away to the waterside where they put me in a speedboat.

“When we got to Olagbene their boat had a fault and ran out of fuel, when they saw an oncoming boat they fled into the bush and the people in the boat took me and hid me in the neighbouring community.

“Shortly afterward the kidnappers who had fixed their boat came to the place I was kept and shot severally threatening to kill the people if I was not produced, so they brought me out and left for the waterside.

“We boarded the kidnappers’ boat again and heard the sound of the Navy gunboat , it was at this point that the kidnappers abandoned their boat and when the Navy people came I cried out to them that I was the one held hostage.

“They took me in their boat and brought me to Yenagoa,” she concluded.

Wanbai later handed over the victim to two police officers, James Ejure, from the Criminal Investigation Department and Richard Ogwuche of the Anti-Kidnap Squad, both of the Bayelsa Police Command.

Ejure assured the Navy commander that the police would investigate the matter and bring the culprits to justice.