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Mr. Augustine Onwuamaegbu, national president of Person with Disability Initiative Nigeria, has described how he was adopted and tortured by alleged kidnappers on the Abuja-Kaduna motorway. The incident happened last week as he oversaw a group of volunteers distributing free working sticks, hearing aids, and other supplies to people with disabilities between the villages of Akilbu and Rijana along the Abuja-Kaduna road. Onwuamaegbu claimed that after being kidnapped and abused for two days by assailants sent by their political masters from Abuja, the assailants left him in a defenceless state in a bush before being rescued by some good Samaritans.