Oriire: Abductors fed us only when convenient for them – DSS witness tells court

The witness of the Department of State Service, DSS in the ongoing trial of five alleged Ansaru terror group members on Friday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that their abductors fed them only when it was convenient for them.

The witness code named AAA who was one of the victims of Orire school abduction said they were seriously traumatised during and after their ordeal that lasted 56 days.

Under cross examination by the counsel to the five accused persons Mr Bala Dakum, the witness said they were offered food by the abductors at their own convenient time despite the presence of little children of 18 months among them.

She admitted that the alleged kidnappers used the mobile phone of the victims to contact government officials but said she did not know the phone number of the government officials that were called.

She further told the court that upon their rescue by security operatives, she was interrogated by DSS operatives in their office and also while in the hospital.

Answering a question, the witness admitted that the three out of the five defendants on trial were with them in the forest while she got to know the other two during interrogation at the DSS office.

She also told the court that Michael Oyedokun and John Olaleye were killed at camp A and Camp B respectively but that she was not present at the scene where they were beheaded.

The witness further told the court that because she was not at the scene where the two teachers were beheaded, she did not know the specific kidnappers that carried out the killing.

Meanwhile justice Salim Olasupo Ibrahim has fixed October 12 and 13 for continuation of trial of the five accused person.

Oriire: Abductors fed us only when convenient for them – DSS witness tells court