According to Punch Newspaper, Collomp
was seized in Rimi town of Katsina State 11 months ago.
The foreigner, an engineer with a French renewable energy firm, Vergnet company of France, was on a routine official assignment when he
was kidnapped.
Kaduna State Police
Commissioner, Olufemi
Adenaike, who presented Collomp to journalists at the
police headquarters on Sunday said, "The man escaped from the kidnappers yesterday
(Saturday) through the bush at Dan Magaji village in Zaria, Kaduna State. He saw an Okada man (commercial
motorcyclists) and told him to take him to the nearest police station. This is how far I can go
for security reasons."
The CP, who handed him over to French embassy officials who came to the command
headquarters in Kaduna, said arrangements had been
concluded to fly the man back to France on Monday (today).
He further explained that the kidnappers took the French national to Kano where he spent nine months before taking him back to Zaria where he spent another two months before his escape yesterday.
