Tuesday, April 14, 2026 - A Nigerian chef has recalled how police managed to trace him to a bush where he was cooking for Chinese miners to arrest him.
Bawalicious, a chef who specialises in cooking for foreign
workers in Nigeria, narrated how an issue with his former boss led to him
being traced to a remote location with just his phone.
He then questioned how kidnappers make phone calls to demand
ransom, yet they can't be traced.
He concluded that this means kidnappings in Nigeria are
"sponsored".
He wrote: 'The Nigerian police can track my phone in the
middle of the bush where I was cooking for miners but kidnappers are somehow
untraceable?
'In 2024 August. I was in Nasarawa State. A small village in
Uke. No network half the time, no noise, just bush and survival.
'Yet somehow, the Nigerian police tracked my phone down to
the exact spot I was cooking in the middle of that bush for some Chinese
miners.
'The crazy thing is that they sent two Idoma men because
from my calls they could tell my tribe and used it to deceive me that I should
come outside the company gates and they were my uncle.
'I refuse to come out because I was scared because I don’t
recognize the number or voice until they forcefully enter into the company and
requested the security call me and I am a thief.
'My offense? My former boss in Abuja reported that I stole
his phone.
'The same iphone this man SOLD to me.
'I was on my own when he told me he wants to sell one is
phone.
'When we fell out and I quit working for them, the story
suddenly changed.
'It became “company phone” and the “bigger boss” now wanted
it.
'I asked a simple question what about my money because I
have been using the phone for 4 months and all of a sudden when I quit working
with the company it became company phone.
'He told me to go and collect it from the Chinese man who
sold the phone to me who was already in China.
'I refused. I said no refund, no phone.
Next thing, police showed up.
'No proper investigation. No interest in hearing my side.
Just “follow us.”
'They seized the phone and were ready to lock me up like a
criminal.
'If not for my dad, who quickly made some calls and sent
people to come through for me, I don’t even know how that story would have
ended.
'Even with all that intervention, I was still forced to
write a statement and pay heavily just to k!ll the case.
'That experience broke something in me. I have never really
talked about it till now.
'But here is what keeps bothering me: If they could track me
down to a remote bush in Uke, a place where we were literally mining stones and
cooking in the middle of nowhere.
'What exactly is the excuse for not tracking
kidnappers?
'These people collect ransom. They make calls. They move
around.
'So what really is the problem?
'And you still want to tell me these things are not being
sponsored?
'They can track “yahoo boys” overnight But kidnappers
suddenly become invisible?
'I don’t get it.
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