For most women from the coastal communities of the Niger Delta, the leisure of diving into the river and engaging in the rigorous exercise of swimming reduces with age. And at 69, you are expected to gently paddle your canoe and fish for the family's consumption.
But for Mrs. Esther Akpe, mother of the leader of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Peter Peretorobo Akpe, who was abducted from her residence in Sagbama Local Government Area, the swimming she engaged in to escape her abductors on Tuesday could compete for national or Olympic records.
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