"At a point, one of the officers came and tightened the cuffs on my right hand and leg. I was there groaning in pain, and it was that way for three days. When they released it all, the right side of my body felt numb. As I'm talking to you, I can still feel the numbness in my right hand and leg," Mr Olatunji narrated.
He said the men were accompanied by his wife, whom they had taken from her shop and forced to take them to his home."On March 15 March, I was at my house in Lagos, watching 'Journalists' Hangout' with my seven-year-old son, when suddenly, soldiers burst into the sitting room. "I asked an officer, whom I identified as Colonel Lawal if I could know why they were looking for me, and he said no, that they were from the military and they were there to arrest me.
"They moved me into the aircraft, and we took off; when we landed, they took all my clothes. I was left with my boxer shorts. They also put leg cuffs on me in addition to the handcuffs and put me in a cell," Mr Olatunji narrated his perilous journey from Lagos to Abuja.Upon arrival in Abuja, the journalist was driven from the airport to a detention facility.
"He also asked me about a story we carried about the chief of staff to the president, I think that was the major thing," Mr Olatunji said, attributing his ordeal"people in the corridors of power who are not happy with what FirstNews is doing and they are bent on taking their own pound of flesh."But talks about Mr Olatunji's release only began after a thorough search on his phone to ascertain the sources of his outlet's stories and obtaining a statement from him.
"After lots of back and forth, they eventually took me somewhere under the bridge in Abuja here, where he was also asked to come, and he came. I was happy when he came. They asked him to sign some files, and when he did, they released me to him."The journalist said he had been trailed for weeks before his eventual abduction by the Military.
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