KADUNA (Nigeria), Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The people behind the kidnapping of six female secondary school students and two members of staff in Kaduna state in the north of Nigeria have demanded a ransom, the state governor said.
The kidnappings happened before dawn on Thursday at the Engravers College – a boarding school near Kakau Daji village south of Kaduna city.
“They have made a demand for money and that is being negotiated,” Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai said.
Whilst militants have kidnapped students before in other areas of northern Nigeria – dozens of whom are still missing – this attack is more likely to have been carried out by a kidnapping gang in search of a ransom.
“My daughter called me early Friday morning on a phone number I didn’t know,” a mother of one of the students said.
“She was crying and sounded frightened.” — NNN-AGENCIES
