Micah, cheats death, miraculously.
By Jeremy Nyuwa
Her name is Micah Retnan Manglek and she was gone for three months in a kidnappers den somewhere in a benighted, God-forsaken bush that she doesn’t remember.
She recently returned back to her family in Jos a day to sallah. We had earlier published her as missing.
Her family approached Plateau the Beautiful, as the biggest platform in Plateau State, hoping for the news to be disseminated so that perhaps somebody, somewhere may have seen her.
We wish to report now that she has been found, thanks to God almighty for his amazing care and protection over her while she was in captivity.
Her tale started on December 20, 2024 when she was sent on an errand to terminus by her parents.
While in terminus, she was approached by an elderly woman inquiring of the location of Plateau Riders Motor Park.
Micah narrates that she told the woman she didn’t know the location and after that, she immediately lost her senses and when next she came back to her senses, she found herself tied in a bush somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Micah narrates her life in captivity as one of constant fear. There were other captives in the captivity camp she found herself.
Together with other captives, they had to farm for their food. There was also a small river they in which they went fishing to supplement their diet.
Micah narrated that there is an abattoir in the camp which serves as a killing enclosure for any captive who did not pay ransom.
That any of the captives who couldn’t pay ransom was taken to the abattoir and never returned.
Micah narrated that she wasn’t killed and neither were her parents reached for ransom because she was stubborn and refused to give her captors the number to her parents.
She remarked that the Fulani loved her as a result of her stubbornness and nicknamed her “Head Girl”.
She said that she overheard them one night, when they thought that she was sleeping, discussing how they intended to indoctrinate and recruit her into their ranks.
She also overheard them talking about grooming her in future to be sent to Mangu as an effective plant (Spy) in her local community to enable them infiltrate the Maghavul people.
She said that her kidnappers talked at length about Plateau state’s affairs and were amused at the new relationship that had developed in the state between Berom and Mwaghavul people.
She said another reason that while other captives who could not pay ransom were killed but she was spared was because she was pregnant at the time she was kidnapped.
She further said that her kidnappers kept her so she could deliver and the child used for her ransom, if she refused to work for them.
Micah’s pregnancy was well known by her family at the time of her kidnapping and was as a result of a bad choices she made with her boyfriend.
Micah narrated that she had given up hope of ever reuniting with her family.
However, the day for her big break came one day, a few weeks after she had given birth, when she was asked to board a vehicle to be taken somewhere they didn’t disclose to her.
It was while being transported by two men that she made her daring escape.
She said that she asked to ease herself. One of the men transporting her was sleeping and the other idling on his android phone at the time they stopped.
She said she scooped her baby into her clothes without them knowing. She went into the bush and when she never returned, the men proceeded to search everywhere in the bush with torch lights for her to no avail.
Micah narrated that she took cover under some shrubs and watched how her captors were searching for her for a long time.
In the morning, she said she made her way to a nearby road where she flagged a good Samaritan and was offered a ride to Jos.
Micah is safely at home now, but traumatized by the experience and is being treated along with the baby, for pneumonia and other ailments.
She returned home with the same hairdo that she left home three months ago, disheveled looking for having not taken her bath in months.
She is getting all the help she needs in reaclimtizing back to society.
The family reached out to express their profound gratitude to PTB and all those who supported them in their trying moments.
