A Nigerian man who identifies as @MichealAkan has shared on the microblogging platform X, how his brother went missing for two years only to return home one day.
He revealed that his brother was kidnapped and taken to a remote village where he was used as a fishing slave.
His tweet read;
“A lot of people have messaged me about this so I’ll make a little thread to explain some things. Sometime in 2007, my younger brother who was staying with an aunt in Uyo at the time left home and didn’t return. Apparently leaving home whenever he felt he was being maltreatment was a normal behavior for him. We didn’t know about any of this at the time. My aunt said he always came back the same day but this time around, he didn’t come back for almost a week before she alerted us. This tore the whole extended family apart in ways that I can’t describe it was very traumatic. We went to lengths I didn’t think my father would ever agree to just to find him. The ones who went to church did, the ones who went to other places did and they all always came back to say that they were told that he’s still alive so I think in a way, that gave us a little bit of hope but I could see my father withering away even though he tried really hard to conceal it. After a year, we were talking about ways to move on because it felt like he was never going to be found. Then one day, he just appeared looking like a ghost. Apparently, he was kidnapped and taken to a remote village where he was used as a fishing slave. He had no idea of who he was or where he came from or even where he was. He said there were other young boys there too none of them could tell who they were either. They were taken out to the sea to start fishing as early as 4 am and when they return, they’ll start smoking the fishes in and fill them in lots of baskets to be sold. He said it didn’t feel like he was in Nigeria that it felt like a neighboring African country. Then one day, while he was on the sea, he somehow regained consciousness of who he was and became aware of his surroundings. He started plotting his escape silently for a while and when he had the chance, he took it it took a long while before things normalized. We were very happy for his return but also kinda scared. We didn’t know how to just carry on like nothing happened. It was as if he was a stranger for a while. But after a while, things normalized.”
See tweets below,
