Nigel Brennan

But at the same time, he'd been talking to me about, he said, if we were to release you, there are a number of promises that I need you to make.

And I was like,

yeah, what are they?

And he's like, well, if we, would you be able to pay extra money once you were released?

And I said, yeah, of course I've got a house, I can sell it.

Um, it might take a little bit of time, but, uh, you know, I, I would happily do that.

And he's like, well, if you could do that and pretty much, um, I think one of the other conditions were, you know, um,

bring people to the religion of Islam.

So yeah, easy love, that's a no-brainer.

Not talking about what we had endured during our kidnapping.

I was just like, yeah, of course I'm not going to talk about that.

So he'd come up with these five, I can't remember the other two offhand, but he'd been talking about these promises and I was like, yeah, absolutely, I can promise that.

I can promise you the world.

I can over-promise and under-deliver.

That is my motto.

But then he'd been talking about this on-selling and we'd moved back to Mogadishu by this stage.

We were staying in that house.

I called it the rat house because there were rats in it and stuff like that.

It was pretty filthy and was in my room.

It was sort of early afternoon and Abdullah came in and he's just like, stand up.