…Says terrorists threaten to conscript, marry them
The Parent-Teachers Association of Nigeria, (PTAN),) yesterday, asked the Federal Government to hasten up the release of 12 students taken hostage by terrorists since 2021.
Among those taken hostage were the female students of the Federal Government College, (FGC), Yauri, Yobe State, as well as the only remaining student of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna.
The renewed appeal followed the release of the last batch of the 23 Abuja-Kaduna-bound AK-9 train passengers abducted on March 28 by terrorists.
According to the National President of PTAN, Haruna Danjuma, the Government should apply the same pattern used when securing the release of the Kaduna-Abuja train abducted passengers in rescuing the abandoned FGC, Yauri and Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna.
Danjuma, who spoke to newsmen in Kaduna, expressed concern over a viral video trending in the social media, showing female students of the Federal Government College, Yauri, being conscripted into banditry and brandishing AK-47 guns.
While commending the Federal Government for the release of Abuja-Kaduna train victims, he reminded the Government of “the Kebbi school students and the remaining students of Bethel Baptist, Kaduna”.
The PTAN boss expressed shock and disbelief “seeing kidnapped, abandoned secondary school girls holding all sorts of dangerous weapons, calling on their parents to come to their aid. “Their lives are in serious danger as they are now exposed to dangerous weapons and notorious people surrounding them”, he added.
In the video that went viral, the kidnapped female students were seen holding AK-47 with chains of ammunition around their necks, apparently showing them as new conscripts. The terrorists were heard in the video threatening to force the students to join their fold “since the parents did not take the matter serious by coming to rescue them”. One of the students in the video, amidst sobs, appealed to her father to come and rescue her, saying they were in a terrible situation and that their captors threatened to take them away to where they would never remember their parents again.
Recall that no fewer than 11 remaining students of the Federal Government College, Yauri are still held captive, while only one student of the Bethel Baptist High School is left with their abductors.
