Allah has destined that you will live long enough to see this day (June 1, 2023) after going through the harrowing experience of spending 29 days in Kidnappers' den.
Laila and I were kidnapped nearly two years ago in my country home in Bakori and kept at Kidandan forest till ransom was paid. We were forced to trek for more than one hundred kilometers barefooted for two days in a rainstorm, in spite of the fact that Laila is a sickle cell patient.
After her ordeal, Laila has put the unfortunate incident behind her and went on to score 6 distinctions and two credits in her WASSCE, but not without some setbacks!
While sitting for the exams, she experienced crisis when her illness came. She just managed to finish the last two papers in pains before she was hospitalized for several days.
And, initially, WAEC withheld her results for several months. That left all her hopes in NECO. When NECO eventually released her results, she discovered that she had only a pass in English and that made her ineligible for admission into the university… Sad…
The only option left was to register her for the WAEC for external candidates examination, which we quickly did. But just three days after spending money to register her, WAEC released her results, and, bingo, she had 6 distinctions and two credits, including A1 in Mathematics! However, History was cancelled!
We also experienced serious challenges registering her for JAMB, when her NIN and phone number couldn't generate the code for the registration for several weeks. We kept on complaining to NIMC and MTN, including changing her phone numbers several times. Just when we had given up hope that she wasn't going to sit for the exam that year, we eventually succeeded. She sat for the exam and passed above the cut-off point for the course she applied for. She's now awaiting admission into the university, having successfully sat for the Post-UTME exam and awaiting results…
Laila wants to become a journalist to highlight her condition and that of other sickle cell patients to get succour for them. She's also interested in exposing the activities of bandits to the world.
But as Muslims, we consider such challenges as necessary trials from Almighty Allah! And all we can say is may He make us pass such trials with flying colours…
May Allah make it easy for her to succeed in her endeavours! HBD and best wishes!
Follow the links below to read about the full kidnap story and a documentary programme on same:
https://www.ahmadabdulkadir.com.ng/2021/10/how-i-was-kidnapped.html?m=1