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| Katsina State: Nigerian Army Says Troops Rescued 18 From Terrorists, Handed Them Over To State Gov’t; turbans threaten to marry kidnapped bride, sell 62 wedding guests. |
| 2024-02-09 |
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The Brigade Commander, 17 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Katsina, Brig Gen. Oluremi Fadairo, said that the soldiers took a rescue operation to the bandits’ enclaves at Yan-Tumaki and Dan-Ali forests. He explained that the troops successfully engaged the terrorists in a gun battle, after which they successfully rescued the victims. Fadairo then handed over the victims to the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr Nasiru Mu’azu.
Terrorists who kidnapped a bride and 62 wedding guests in Damari in the Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State have threatened to marry the bride and sell the other abductees if their families do not pay the ransom demanded to secure their release. SaharaReporters had reported how the women were attacked and abducted by the terrorists when they were escorting the bride to her matrimonial home in Damari community. The victims were initially over 70, mostly friends of the bride. But some of them escaped when they jumped off the moving van after the terrorists hijacked the vehicle. The Chairman of Dandume Local Government Area, Alhaji Basiru Musa, confirmed the report. In a viral video seen on X by SaharaReporters, the terrorists filmed all their abductees and said they would marry some of them off to their members and sell the rest if the ransom of N100 million demanded is not paid. Dressed in police uniform, the terrorist leader said they had a total of 63 captives with them. “I am the one who abducted them, and I will not release them until the ransom we demanded is paid,” the terrorist leader said in the video. “Anyone who thinks they can rescue them should try to do so.” Some of the captives were spotted with AK-47 guns draped around their necks, while the bride was dressed in an army outfit. One of the kidnappers is heard saying, “Here is the bride dressed in army uniform.” In the video, the captives are heard crying for help. They urge their relations to pay the terrorists the ransom demanded. The driver of the vehicle that transported the wedding guests is also seen in the video holding a gun and pleading for the ransom to be paid. According to Daily Trust, the bride's family confirmed that the terrorists demanded a ransom of N100 million for the release of all kidnap victims. “They are asking for N100 million as ransom. None of us has ever seen that amount of money; so, I told them directly that we don’t have such funds,” Haruna Abdullahi, an uncle of the bride, said. He further said the kidnappers told him they made the video to challenge the state governor, Dikko Umar Radda, who, according to them, was supposed to have promised to rescue the hostages. “They said they made the video to demonstrate their seriousness to the governor,” Abdullahi said, expressing appreciation for the governor’s concern and promise to rescue the victims. Abdullahi revealed that eight of his sisters and nine daughters were among the captives. Another family member identified as Zubairu said that the abductees included his wife, six children, and 13 relatives. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 ^ Nicely played |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-09 18:53 |
| #14 "My Big Fat Nigerian Wedding" Directed by M. Night Shyamalan "Its Tears of the Sun, with a romantic twist!" -LA Times |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-09 17:03 |
| #13 Started watching Melrose Place as a way to spend time with my wife. I wound up hooked. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:54 |
| #12 Didn't even own a TV for most of me life. It’s interesting being only connected with the popular culture when one leaves the house. Our family television broke when I was seven; my baby brother bought a 13” B&W jobby when I was seventeen, so I went straight from Flipper, Lassie, and Gentle Ben to Soap and Saturday Night Live. I’m still puzzled by much I encounter, not having the referents. Mr, Wife made a point of watching popular shows with the trailing daughters so that, despite spending their early years abroad, they’d be connected to contemporaneous American culture instead of turning out like President Obama. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-02-09 16:47 |
| #11 I don't pay for any streaming crap. All those companies want me disenfranchised or executed. Fuck them all. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 15:22 |
| #10 Don't look for stories. Live them. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 15:20 |
| #9 Don't look stories. Live them. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 15:19 |
| #8 We used to paint on the walls of our caves. Today we have streaming media. We like stories, us humans. Always have. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-02-09 14:55 |
| #7 Dunno. Didn't even own a TV for most of me life. Mostly ran a news channel muted in the corner once I did. Figured, seeing the whole culture losing its mind over media, that it was time to catch up. Granted, it's turned into a tarbaby. Sad life? Sure. But today's not so bad... Woke up to half blue and half gloom, As if Ra had spelled Nut at her loom, And a rainbow or two, And a cutter -- that's new -- And a crow going cuckoo... at whom? A literal crow. No offense meant. Enjoy your day, eh? |
| Posted by: Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-09 14:42 |
| #6 ^ Life's a streaming (steaming) TeeVee show. What a sad life you have. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 14:18 |
| #5 Happened to watch, immediately afterward, by purest coincidence, the opening scenes of Executive Suite. Mind irreparably blown. Poor bastards... they never, any of 'em, allies or enemies, ever had a chance, did they? And we (X-ers forward) blew the lead. Sooooorry. |
| Posted by: Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-09 14:15 |
| #4 Cool little flick: Red Africa. Imagine Jacques Tati, Besoeker, and a random second Burger (to keep things balanced ;-)) assembling a documentary from bits of Soviet documentary footage without adding commentary. No mondo, just cultural exchange, trade stuff, recruitment for prestigious PLU, Moscow experience of students and bigshots, etc. Boring as hell. Loved it. |
| Posted by: Slusogum Lumplump3246 2024-02-09 14:01 |
| #3 Such a modern, pleasant, civilization. What was wrong with colonialism again? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2024-02-09 10:49 |
| #2 Nothing much good has happened there in several thousand years. Stay away. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-09 09:43 |
| #1 "My Big Fat |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-09 08:57 |