Bandits release Video Of Pregnant student abducted from Kaduna school school

By our reporter| Bandits who kidnapped 38 students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, in March on Tuesday released a video featuring the pregnant student and a wife of a navy officer.

Daily Trust reports that between April 5 and April 8, the bandits released 10 of the abducted students, leaving 29 of them in captivity.

The bandits who earlier demanded a N500 million ransom from the Kaduna state government, however, contacted the parents of the students following the refusal of the government to negotiate with them.

Ten of the students have since been released by the bandits.

But in a video that lasted for about five minutes and ostensibly shot at night, one of the bandits who spoke in Hausa and later Fulfulde, could be heard ordering some of the students
to come forward and speak to the camera.

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The pregnant woman, addressed as Hajiya by the bandits pleaded with their parents to come to their rescue.

She said, “We are appealing to our parents to help us, we are tired and there is no food. They should do their best to get us out of this place. We have spent 47 days, almost all of us are ill and there is no food. We sleep in the open even when it rains.”

Another woman introduced as the wife of a military officer who was abducted from her home in Tirkania-Agwa in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State by the bandits also appealed to the federal government for help.

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The woman who said her husband is a naval officer working in Warri, Delta State, said the bandits had earlier requested for N30million for their release.

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