After the payment of ransom, the bandits only released 10 victims
ABUJA, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The 27 students abducted by bandits from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, have been released.
One of the persons who received the students said the release was facilitated by the Sheikh Ahmad Gumi dialogue committee with support from former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The students were among the 37 abducted almost two months ago.
Earlier, after payment of ransom by parents and school management, the bandits only released 10 of the victims.
Their abductors had initially demanded a N500 million ransom from the Kaduna State Government but Governor Nasir El-Rufai ruled out the option of negotiation, saying bandits deserve to be killed.
Meanwhile, bandits invaded Mahu village in Gwagwada ward of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing two and kidnapping scores of the people of the area.
The bandits also attacked and razed the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church in the area.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the attack, saying that 13 of those kidnapped in the area were rescued by the troops of Operation Thunder Strike.
Receiving the report, Governor Nasir El-Rufai thanked the troops and commended them warmly for the successful rescue operation. He also commiserated with the families of the deceased volunteers and prayed for the repose of their souls.
In another abduction incident, four travellers have been kidnapped along Ayetoro-Ilara Road in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
They were reportedly abducted by four gunmen on Tuesday night at Olubo Village while travelling in a taxi from Abeokuta to Ilara in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of the state.
One of those spared, Rofiat Oladeinde, recalled that the kidnappers abducted the driver and three women who were selected randomly among the passengers.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police of the state Police Command, Muritala Bolanle, who later visited the scene of the abduction in a police helicopter, promised that they would arrest the abductors. — NNN-AGENCIES
