A Warri based Freelance journalist escaped from his kidnapper after jumping through a window in an high rise building.
The victim Monday Whiskey was kidnapped in Warri and a ransom of N10 million was demanded from his family.
According to Nobert Chiazor, Chairman of the Delta State branch of the Nigerian Union Journalist, “ Monday escaped through the window of the house where he was kept.”
This acount was also corroborated by the spokesman for the Delta State Police Force, Charles Muka who said, “the man escaped from his abductors yesterday.”
Chiazor added that Whiskey escaped when the guard looking after him left the building, some 10 miles (16 kilometres) from Warri.
“Although he was chained in both legs, Whiskey managed to escape through the window,” he said, adding that no ransom was paid before the “miraculous escape of the journalist.”
The police said no arrest had been made. Scores of ransom kidnappings have been carried out in the oil-producing Niger Delta region but journalists have seldom been targeted. Expatriate oil workers and family members of wealthy Nigerians have been the main targets, though a 2009 amnesty deal for militants sharply reduced unrest in the region