The wife of the 73-year-old abducted Lagos monarch, Oba Yushau Oseni, Oniba Ibaland, yesterday, said the Oba was kidnapped at about 8p.m. Saturday, when he was about taking his bath.
Nofisat, (the Oba's wife) said that over 15 mask-wearing gunmen stormed the town.
Six of the kidnappers entered the palace, while others stood at strategic locations, including the waterways.
A police officer attached to the palace had closed from duty by 4p.m.
News men gathered that while four of the gunmen took the monarch through the back door, the other two left through the main entrance.
The wife narrated that the Oba was about taking his bath “when we heard the children in the sitting room shouting. We were both in his room; we left in order to caution the children.
Just at the entrance of the parlour we met the gunmen. “They asked him if he was the monarch and he answered in affirmative. Immediately, they left the children alone and took him.
I attempted preventing his kidnap, but one of the gunmen hit me in the neck and I fell.” It was learned that the young wife went after the abductors, begging to spare him.
They shot her and the 60-year-old palace security guard, Mr. Sunday Okanlawon, who was also trying to prevent the kidnap.
Coresspondence gathered that some of the kidnappers waited at the entrance of the creek in a boat.
An eye witness, simply identified as Biodun, said that while the kidnappers were escaping with the monarch, they shot sporadically to scare people away.
Biodun said: “In the process, bullets hit two residents, a-yet-to-be-identified commercial motorcycle operator and commercial bus driver, Hakeem Lalupon, who was shot in the stomach while refuelling his vehicle, with number plates AGL-658 XL.” Biodun said the okada rider died yesterday, while Lalupon is battling for survival.
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