The terrorists who attacked the AK-9 Abuja-Kaduna-bound train, killing nine passengers and kidnapped over 60 other passengers, have withdrawn their threat to start killing the remaining 62 passengers in captivity by tomorrow, Tuesday.
The terrorists, according to the spokesman of the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Tukur Mamu, have however given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum, effective from May 30, to release their eight children in government custody.
Recall that the abductors of the train passengers last Tuesday threatened to start slaughtering the 62 passengers in custody if the Federal Government fails to release their children.
Mamu, a Kaduna-based publisher, who said he has succeeded in reaching a truce with the terrorists, said the location of the eight children the terrorists want in exchange for the train passengers, has been established with the help of security agencies.
Gumi’s spokesman said the terrorists shifted grounds and even promised to continue to feed the captives well and attend to their medical needs after photographs of the eight children of the terrorists was sent to them as proof.
Mamu said security agencies located the eight children currently being held in Adamawa State.
He, however, called on the Federal Government to hasten the release of their children. To this end, he affirmed that a temporary truce that will enable the government to facilitate action was indeed reached with the abductors.
“In view of the encouraging development it remains to be seen how the government will react to it to ensure the immediate release of the kidnapped victims that have now spent two months in captivity”, he stated.
