The bandits who abducted 15 Qur’anic students in Sokoto State have reached out to their families, demanding N20 million for their release.
This follows the Thursday abduction of 287 schoolchildren in Kaduna State and the kidnapping of over 200 Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) from their camp in Borno State last Wednesday.
In response to these incidents, President Bola Tinubu has instructed security agents to promptly secure the rescue of all the abducted individuals.
The proprietor of the Quranic school, Liman Abubakar, verified this information during an interview with newsmen yesterday.
The said students were abducted by bandits who raided Gidan Bakuso village in the Gada Local Government area in the early hours of Saturday.
Abubakar said the bandits called him and requested for N20 million for the students to be freed.
He said, “They (the bandits) called me this morning around 11 am and directed me to meet our village head and tell him to raise N20 million for the children. I went and discussed the matter with the village head but we are yet to conclude”.
Meanwhile, the State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ahmed Rufa’i, said the command was still working on the release of the students.
“We are still searching the surrounding villages and forest to get the exact location of where the kids are being held. We are on it, and hopefully we will get them rescued”, he added.
