Chief Olu Falae
A
daughter to a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
Chief Olu Falae, Mrs. Yewande Towobola, has said her father was getting
over the shock of his kidnap.
Yewande, who spoke with our correspondent
on the telephone on Saturday, said the former minister of finance was
recuperating gradually and would get better very soon.
She stated, ‘‘He is taking a rest and getting better. After next week, he would be available for press interviews.”
Many
friends and family members besieged the Akure home of Falae to
sympathise with his wife, Rachael and other family members following his
abduction on Monday, September 21 by suspected Fulani herdsmen on his
farm in Ilado village, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
He regained freedom on Thursday,
September 24, following the intervention of the Inspector-General of
Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, his men and other security operatives in the
state.
His relations and friends welcomed him back home amid cheers and jubilation.
Though Falae’s wife was not available to
speak with our correspondent, a nephew of Falae, Mr. Dayo Awude, said
members of the family were worried about him until he was released.
Awude, a former Chairman of the State
Scholarship Board, said, “We give God the glory for what has happened.
We are happy as members of the family, we are excited and it was God
that did it .
“Baba was there for four days, but God
kept him. Those four days were traumatic, it was four days of hell in
the family because he is an old man, we don’t know the condition he was
subjected to, so we were bothered. We thank God Almighty that he is
back.
“We thank President Muhammadu Buhari for
doing this for us, we also thank the Inspector-General of Police and his
men for all their efforts to bring our father back to us hale and
hearty.”
Simlarly, a brother-in-law to Falae and
leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief
Reuben Fasoranti, who expressed happiness over Falae’s safe return,
added that the four days he spent in captivity were not good days for
his family members.
Fasoranti said, ‘‘I am overwhelmed. I
thank God that he came back alive because anything could have happened.
We didn’t know his abductors; they only spoke to us on the telephone
from nowhere. We thank God for everything. It was not a good experience
for the family.’’
Meanwhile, the family of Falae has bared
journalists and unknown individuals from entering the Oba-Ile, Akure
residence of the freed elder statesman.
When our correspondent visited the
residence on Saturday, the entrance to the house was shut and one of the
policemen manning the gate told our correspondent that they had been
instructed not to allow journalists and unknown persons enter the house.
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