The bandits that kidnapped 15 Qur’anic college students in Sokoto State have established contact with their households, demanding N20 million earlier than releasing them.
The proprietor of the varsity, Liman Abubakar confirmed this improvement in a phone dialog with our correspondent on Tuesday.
PUNCH On-line studies that the stated college students had been kidnapped by bandits who raided Gidan Bakuso village within the Gada Native Authorities space within the early hours of Saturday.
Abubakar stated the bandits known as him and requested for N20 million for the scholars to be freed.
He stated, “They (the bandits) known as me this morning round 11 am and directed me to fulfill our village head and inform him to boost N20 million for the kids.
“I went and mentioned the matter with the village head however we’re but to conclude.”
In the meantime, the state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ahmed Rufai, stated the command was nonetheless engaged on the discharge of the scholars.
“We’re nonetheless looking out the encircling villages and forest to get the precise location of the place the children are being held.
“We’re on it and hopefully we are going to get them rescued,” he added.
Sunday PUNCH reported that the threats of clampdown on bandits and terrorists abducting schoolchildren appear to have little or no impact on the terrorists as 15 pupils of an Islamiya college in Sokoto State had been kidnapped within the early hours of Saturday.
This comes after Thursday’s abduction of 287 schoolchildren in Kaduna State. On Wednesday, over 200 Internally Displaced Individuals had been kidnapped from their camp in Borno State.
Reacting to the incidents, President Bola Tinubu ordered safety brokers to safe the instant rescue of all of the kidnapped folks.
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