CASES of unreported abductions are on the rise in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. But sadly, rather than reporting such cases to the police, victims prefer to go to their religious organisations and narrate their ordeals in form of "testimonies and thanksgiving."

The Guardian investigations in Ilorin, revealed that in the past one month, about four middle aged men were kidnapped at various locations within the city but managed to escape.

Incidentally, their stories were similar. They were usually passengers inside taxis or buses but moments after boarding, lost consciousness until taken into an unknown house.

One of them who said he boarded a commercial vehicle at Unity Road Junction in the city and was heading towards Asa Dam Road. "Immediately I entered the cab, I lost my consciousness until I met myself inside a house. I saw about six men inside with two of them putting on medical doctors white laboratory coats, with stethoscopes dangling on their necks.

"The other men wore all-black attires embossed with cowries and gourds. They used red headbands but surprisingly, they gave me the best of food. Intermittently, I was hearing the sounds of women in some of the rooms adjacent to where I was placed. The first thing they did to me was to remove my cloth and hanged it on the wall hanger. They consequently gave me another cloth like pajamas to wear," he said.

He said they ordered him to be having bouts of sex with some ladies already kidnapped, adding: "This was a regular exercise for me until they took me out of the house around 2 am after spending over 10 months there. Again, I lost my consciousness until they dropped me at Alore area in Ilorin. They wrapped inside an envelope the sum of N250, 000, placed it by my side  and they sped off.

"At the enclave, immediately pregnant ladies are delivered of their babies, they would be given the best of treatment and after just two weeks from that date, they would ask some of us who are male to start having fun with them. Again, after the deliveries of the babies, they are handed over to some men with big brief cases and that is the last thing you will hear of such incidents. I thank God that I came back home a living entity. But what is most painful there is that I could not trace the exact location of the place."

Another victim, who also preferred anonymity, said after his alleged abduction, he was tested but later released after serious beating for not having the same blood group for the type of things they needed.

"I saw an old man there who asked my kidnappers to return me and never to bring my type before him again. They pummeled me but the joy of freedom did not make me to feel it too much," he recalled.

Narrating his ordeal, he said: "I joined a mini bus from Ogbomoso on my way to Ilorin on the fateful day. Just as I entered the bus, I fell into a deep sleep and by the time I woke up I saw myself inside a house with some men there as well. They lined us up and were conducting tests on us as if we were in a laboratory. They would jab needles into our thumbs and would start separating us as they did this. But after they had beaten me in my own case, they dragged me back into the same bus and by the time I woke up at night, I saw welcome to Bida, Niger State. The story of how I came back to Ilorin is too biter for me to narrate."

Speaking on the development, a pastor with one of the pentecostal churches in Ilorin urged men of the state Criminal and Investigative Division (CID) and the State Security Services, (SSS), in the state to commence investigations into the matter in order to expose those behind "the evils."

Besides, he believes that the police should spread their dragnets beyond Kwara State to adjoining states, as no one was sure of the exact location of the enclave of the abductors.

But spokesman of the state police command, Olufemi Fabode, a DSP, said the force was not aware of the cases, as no one had ever reported to the command.