Kings Nehemiah Okoye, a Nigerian marine engineer, has been a seafarer for 25 years. In 2010, while working for the Shell oil company, he was kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Nigeria. Less than two years later he was kidnapped again, this time by Somali pirates. This is his story.

I was first attacked on 1 October 2010. Nigerian pirates killed all 16 of the military personnel who were escorting our vessel, then they boarded our boat, stole all our property and vandalised everything else.
They sailed the ship back to Nigeria and took us into the forest where they held us for four days. They beat us and made us lie down so they could stand on us and march over our bodies. They said they hadn't come to kill us, but to take our oil. After they had siphoned off all the diesel from our ship, they left. I was free.

Less than two years later I was attacked again, this time by Somali pirates.

I was on board a chemical tanker about 150 nautical miles off the coast of Pakistan. It was 28 February 2012. It all happened so suddenly - I was down in the engine room when about 12 of them climbed on board with a ladder. They were shooting everywhere and forced us at gunpoint to sail the ship to Somalia. It took six days. As soon as we got to Somalia, the pirates asked us to contact the owner of the ship to start ransom negotiations.

We were held hostage on the boat for more than a year. The pirates had a special negotiator called Mursal who would come in from Kenya every month or so. I helped negotiate on behalf of the company because the ship owner was Nigerian.

At the beginning, they asked for $25m but the ship owner said he didn't have that kind of money. In the end, I think they settled for about $1.5m. Sometimes Mursal acted as if he was my friend and he often used to ask me if I could get him a job in Nigeria once the ransom was paid and we were freed. "Maybe you can learn how to drive and become a bus driver in Nigeria," I told him. "It's better than carrying guns." At first the pirates kept us on the bridge but they moved us after the death of the engineer - a fellow Nigerian who was a close friend.

The pirates were very, very rough. Sometimes they tied me up like a goat. Sometimes they beat me until I became unconscious. "Let's beat this man because he is a Nigerian," they said. "If we beat him, he will tell the owner of the ship and he will pay the ransom." They did not beat the Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani members of the crew. The pirates brought lots of different guns on board and used our boat as an armoury. They made me weld big guns on to the ship and they would fire them at any other boat that approached us.

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