{"id":27154,"date":"2020-07-09T01:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27154"},"modified":"2020-07-09T01:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:48:15","slug":"disturbing-video-of-nigerian-been-tortured-is-from-pakistan-not-kidnappers-negotiating-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27154","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing video of Nigerian been tortured is from Pakistan, not kidnappers&#8217; negotiating in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians have been able to dig up the identity of the mentioned \u2018Andrew\u2019 who is allegedly responsible for the torture being inflicted on his relative in Pakistan.<br \/>\nAccording to reports earlier circulated, the man\u2019s relation named Andrew used him as a collateral for a business with the group. However, as Andrew didn\u2019t show up to pay what he owes. The gang tortured the human collateral he left behind and filmed it to serve as a warning.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 476px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27154-1\" width=\"476\" height=\"270\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VID-20200707-WA0020.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VID-20200707-WA0020.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/VID-20200707-WA0020.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nIn the video the Nigerian man is seen begging his uncle to sell everything they have and pay a man called Nuruz otherwise he will be killed on July 10th.<br \/>\nNow, some Nigerians have dug deep to find out that Andrew\u2019s real name is Andrew Okwudilli Ezechi aka Okwudili Mmuosa. He is (said to be) from Umudim village in Akwaukwu, Idemili Local government of Anambra state.<br \/>\nA young man &#8230; released an audio to explain the identity of the men. He spoke in Igbo and said Andrew is a drug dealer who took his cousin, to Pakistan and used him as a human collateral to collect \u201cmerchandise\u201d on credit from (a) Pakistani drug lord.<br \/>\nAccording to the person narrating the story, Andrew has finished selling the merchandise and used the proceed to buy a car and other things and \u201cliving the life\u201d.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, it is said that he has been lying to the Pakistani drug lord that the merchandise spoilt and they should send him more to mix it.<br \/>\nThe drug lord refused to buy the lie and is now torturing the human collateral and vowing to kill him if his money is not paid on or before Friday, 10th of July.<br \/>\n(Meanwhile) The Federal Government of Nigeria, through Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), have reacted to the viral video of a Nigerian being tortured in Pakistan by a drug gang.<br \/>\nAccording to reports, the man\u2019s relation named Andrew used him as a collateral for a business with the group. However, as Andrew didn\u2019t show up to pay what he owes. The gang tortured the human collateral he left behind and filmed it to serve as a warning.<br \/>\nIn the video the Nigerian man is seen begging his uncle to sell everything they have and pay a man called Nuruz otherwise he will be killed on July 10.<br \/>\nReacting to the heartbreaking video, NIDCOM said the Nigerian mission in Islamabad, Pakistan, has escalated the issue for investigation.<br \/>\nNIDCOM tweeted: \u201cOur attention has been drawn to this disturbing video of a Nigerian brutally beaten up and threatened to be killed by a Deadly Pakistani Gang after his brother ripped off the gang.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are escalating immediately to our mission in Islamabad, Pakistan for investigation.<br \/>\n\u201cWe call on Nigeria Community in Pakistan to be calm as the Mission will investigate and revert.\u201d<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Reports by www.expressiveinfo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians have been able to dig up the identity of the mentioned \u2018Andrew\u2019 who is allegedly responsible for the torture being inflicted on his relative in Pakistan. According to reports earlier circulated, the man\u2019s relation named Andrew used him as a collateral for a business with the group. However, as Andrew didn\u2019t show up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[774,1856,1857],"class_list":["post-27154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drugs","tag-nidcom","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}