Nigel Brennan

I think it was 11 months before I got to speak to my family again, which was my brother, which was a bit concerning because Ham, my brother, can be pretty gruff and abrupt and, you know, was saying, you know, the kidnappers think we can just pull a million dollars out of her ass.

Like, they're fucking joking.

It's just like, who put Hamilton on the phone?

And I was just like, oh my God.

They're the words I've been waiting to hear for pretty much over 400 plus days.

And then the next day, for nothing to happen, and then Ahmed had come back to the house after not seeing him for weeks.

And he said, so your family has lied to us.

And we are now in discussions with Al-Shabaab.

They've offered to pay $2 million for you.

So we're going to on-sell you to them, they have a bigger network, they'll be able to hold you for years until they obviously get what they, you know, what they demand for you."

And it was just like, no, this is not happening, this cannot be happening.

And Amanda had told me this via the Qur'an.

She'd said, like, she'd heard from Ahmed that they had been discussing on-selling us.

And I can remember thinking with the messages that we were sharing, it's just like, mine were light and fluffy.

I love you.

I miss you.

We're going to be great.

And she's like, they're going to sell us.

And I was just like, I don't want to hear that.

To now hear this out of Ahmed's mouth was just like, oh my God.