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The two New Zealanders released from captivity in Nigeria last week plan to return despite their ordeal.
Brent Goddard, 49, and Bruce Klenner, 47, flew home to New Zealand on Saturday after being released by their kidnappers on Thursday (NZ time), a week after being taken hostage at gunpoint.
"I'm glad to be home," a relieved Mr Goddard told One News from his Titahi Bay home. Yet despite the horrific events of the past week, he planned to return to work in Nigeria within two months.
"If I don't get back on the horse that I've fallen off now, I'll never ever know, so I've got to go back."
Mr Klenner told One News he also planned to return to work in Nigeria, despite the trying time it meant for his wife, Linda, who supported his stance.
Mr Goddard was reluctant to go into details of the ordeal, but said he and the other hostages were given bottled water and beans and rice.
They relied on each other to keep their hopes up.
"If someone was starting to take a bit of a downer, [the feeling was to] get in and give him a hand because everybody got their turn," Mr Goddard said.
The men were among five kidnapped on July 4 while working for the Lone Star Drilling Company on a Shell oil exploration platform in the Niger Delta.
The area has seen a long period of conflict between the government and militants. Armed gangs also prowl the area out to make ransom money.
It was not Mr Klenner's first encounter with armed raiders. He and fellow workers locked themselves inside the rig when it was raided in 2001.
Mr Goddard arrived home just in time to see his partner's daughter, Natasha Eccles, leave to work for Etihad Airways in the United Arab Emirates.
"Brent got back yesterday afternoon so he got a chance to give her a final farewell before she left," said his partner Gilly Sannazzaro. "It's been an emotional roller-coaster for me with Brent's capture, his arrival home and now my daughter leaving."
The Klenners spent Saturday night celebrating with friends and family.
ASI Global Response said Nigeria was the most risky nation for foreign worker kidnaps after Iraq.
- additional reporting: NZPA
