A 47-year-old 'Back To School'adventurer and campaigner, Adjarho David Obaro, popularly known as World Wrapperman, has recounted alleged encounter with pro-Biafra supporters at Ijebu-Ode axis of the Benin-Shagamu expressway, Vanguard newspapers reports.
He reportedly hoisted a Nigerian flag with a 23-yard wrapper tied round his waist, sprinted from Lagos to Delta State in 11 days with a 24-year-old marathon professional, Afeez Akande, in their stunning bid to raise funds for an innovative Back-to-School project in three states, Delta, Edo and Enugu.
The campaign, which took off January 9 in Lagos almost turned tragic at Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, when they narrowly escaped death in the hands of a group of men and women, numbering over 15, who identified themselves as Biafrans. They were queried for carrying the Nigerian flag and at Warri, Delta State, some policemen threatened to shoot them.
Giving details of how the journey started, Wrapperman said: “Armed with our luggage, N5,000 in collaboration with a 24-year-old marathon professional named Afeez Akande, when we left Lagos on January 9, I could tell the journey was doomed, but we were resilient and kept pushing on because as an adventurer, I believed in my course.
“We embarked on a minimum of 900 steps per kilometre to get to Ughelli in 11 days time. To actualize this, we covered 25 kilometres in the morning, another 25 kilometres at sunset totaling 50 kilometres per day and burnt over 12, 000 calories each day. Most times, we continue our journey from 10.00 p.m into the early hours of the morning.”
Security agencies denied us protection On the challenges encountered, Wrapperman said: “Though we tried getting human security in terms of the Police and other security agencies, they failed us, so we relied on God to protect us and He did not fail. One of such times He was there for us was when we narrowly missed being lynched by a group of men and women numbering 15 at Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, who identified themselves as Biafrans and queried us for carrying the Nigerian flag.
“We were just looking for a place to rest when they accosted us, they asked us why we are carrying the Nigerian flag and this was in broad day light, along the major road. While they were manhandling us, Afeez immediately started tweeting the incident, demanding for Police protection, but unfortunately for us, the police was nowhere to be found.
On another ecounter with the Nigeria Police in Warri, Delta State, he said: “Help actually came our way through the assistance of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, branch there who came and calmed the situation. Also, at about 6.00 p.m on a particular day while heading to Ughelli from Warri, at the DSC Roundabout, we faced similar treatment, but this time from a team of police officers at a police checkpoint, who threatened to shoot us for failing to scurry up to them when they barked at us to run to them, but still, God took charge of the situation, following the intervention of a concerned Nigerian, who had earlier heard of our project.
“When people see us, they get scared and think we are mental. There were two nights that we slept without food and one of those nights, we burnt 12, 233 calories. We were able to check the amount of calories burnt with the use of a device used in the measurement of the distance covered and calories burnt.”
Credit: VANGUARD NEWS
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