Robert Nitsch Eberhard freed on Wednesday shared that he never knew if he could get out of his ordeal alive. The German victim, who was kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, last July, was recently set free by his captors.
He looked very haggard, especially with his long blonde gray beard. He was wearing a blue and white Adidas track jacket with a yellow inner shirt as he was flown to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, from Maroua via a military plane.
Robert Nitsch Eberhard freed was kidnapped when he was in Nigeria, where he worked as a teacher. Nigeria is also where, as reported by multiple reports, Boko Haram has long been waging a ruthless insurgency.
"Until the last minute, I did not know if I will survive or I will not survive," Eberhard told the press. "It was, for me, a big problem because there was darkness, totally dark, and then you see nobody around you and this is a big problem to say if I will survive or I will not survive."
Although he has already been set free, the circumstances of how his freedom was given to him were not provided right away. Eberhard did, however, open up about the facilities where he was held captive. According to him, he was locked in a very dirty room during the entire time. He even added that there was one time when he was saved from a lion.
As he had been kidnapped since July of last year, he had lost 50 kilograms. "You had a long time where nobody talks with you. Nobody," said Robert Nitsch Eberhard freed.
Klaus-Ludwig Keferstein, the German Ambassador to Cameroon, thanked the government for making sure that the German's release was secured. "We are very grateful to the Cameroon government that we could find a solution to the problem of this hostage taking." Sadly, however, he refused to give any further details regarding the case.
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