A daring attempt to make a dream fortune by a six-member gang of kidnappers in Bauchi was aborted as nemesis caught up with them following their arrest by men of the State Security Service in the state.

A very dark-skinned young man in his twenties who looked as if PHCN took light just as he was about to be born, scratched the back of his neck, and while stamping his feet intermittently on the ground, he screamed: “I want chop O! I want chop O! I go misbehave O!”.

Tobiloba Ajayi was born prematurely about 25 years ago. She suffered cerebral palsy while still in her mother’s womb and for 12 years after she was born could not walk with her two legs. She could have been thrown away by her parents but that was not to be her fate as succour was to come her way.

The gridlock lasted for several hours, with the traffic stretching from Oshodi Under bridge to Ilezik on the ever-busy Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.

Recently the success of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme was called to question when some ex-militants practically took the laws into their hands while protesting their alleged exclusion from the programme. The protesting former militants had barricaded the Mbiama bridge on the busy East-West road, a development that left most commuters plying that road stranded for several hours.