There’s a new strategy of kidnapping involving SARS. Please be on the alert always while driving.

They stop you aggressively at gunpoint asking you to come out that intelligence reports says you are carrying drugs or arms. While they are purportedly searching your car, and one is distracting you, they’ve set their trap; not bullets or weapons, but chloroform in the AC.

They then tell you that they found nothing and you should leave the area immediately. Instinctively, you’d start your engine, belt-up put on your AC and drive off, and that’s when the drug hits you and you pass out. Another team then comes and takes you to an undisclosed destination and demands for ransom.

This isn’t a story; my friend in Lagos just experienced it over the weekend. What saved him was he already suspected something was up and was alert. When he started his car and drove-off, putting on his AC, he noticed immediately something was making him sleepy so he wound down all his windows, but forgot to put off his AC, but the fresh air helped. God was on his side as he drove across 3rd MLB with drowsiness up to Berger, then to the airport before heading to Ajao estate where he drove into a hotel, paid for a room and slept off for 8hrs; all this while, they were trailing him. His driving into a hotel ended it for them.

When he got himself back and explained what happed to him because his car windows were down and all his things left unattended to, they told him that their boss too had been a victim of the SARS ojoro stop and search.

Please share this and let people know that if they are stopped for any reason by SARS, they should not put on their AC for any reason, but should wind down their windows as they drive and look for the nearest public place to search their car just in case they planted a gun or bullets.

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