A teacher abducted in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Zachery Olatunde, has dismissed online claims that the recent school kidnappings were staged, recounting harrowing details of his 56-day captivity in the Old Oyo National Park.
Speaking in a video shared by Oyo Matters, Olatunde explained that the abductors occasionally washed the captives’ clothes when their bodies began to smell, a detail critics misinterpreted as evidence of staging.
“The abductors are the ones that wash the clothes for us a few times while we were in captivity, when they notice that we are already smelling. Don’t they see how rough and dirty we the teachers were? Didn’t they see how rough our beards were, like that of a bush rat?” he said.
He stressed that the ordeal was real, pointing to the deaths of two victims including a teacher who was beheaded as proof.
“Those saying the kidnapping was staged don’t know what
