Edo based musician , Osayomore Joseph , who was recently freed by kidnappers , has narrated his experience and said he paid a huge ransom .
“ I paid huge ransom before I was released by my abductors after 30 days in captivity ,” he told the
News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Benin .
Osayomore was kidnapped on Oct . 4 and eventually released to his family on November 4 .
The popular musician said that his wife was shot by his abductors before they zoomed- off with him into a forest , bordering a creek , after travelling on the high sea .
He said the trauma he suffered during his 30 -day abduction was not an experience he wanted to remember.
The said that he had packaged his experience in his new album titled “ 30 days and 30 nights in the evil forest ” .
According to him , I was dragged through the forest close to Gelegele and taken in a boat to a creek .
Osayomore said, “ I have never stepped into a boat before . The speed boat on the high sea is enough to give me high blood pressure .
“ The kidnappers called themselves forest soldiers . Those who came to kidnap me did not know me .
“ It was when I got to the creek that some learned ones started singing my old songs. They did not know that I started fighting before they were born .
“ They may have overestimated me that I am very rich. They collected money from me .
“ I will not mention the amount , but it is colossal. That will not deter me from doing what I know how to do best. ”
He added , “ I did not know I will come back alive . I later know I will not die there when they started asking for money .
“ The ransom was collected on the high sea . They called the boat that brought the ransom money Freedom Boat . I was on an Evil Boat
“ After they brought the bags containing huge sums of money , the kidnappers checked them and that was how I came back . ”
