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| Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria |
| 2021-08-23 |
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School administrator Reverend John Hayab said that parents had raised and paid an undisclosed ransom to free the students, who were among more than 100 taken on July 5 from the Bethel Baptist High School. "The students are already being released and would be handed over to their parents any moment from now," Hayab said. Hayab previously said the abductors were seeking 1 million naira ($2,430) per student. Kaduna state’s commissioner for internal security, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the release but did not immediately comment on the ransom payment. Kidnappers released 28 children from the school in July following the release of a first group of 28 two days after the raid. Around 80 had remained in captivity before Sunday’s release. Armed bandidos seeking ransoms have kidnapped more than 1,000 students from schools in northwest Nigeria since December, and Kaduna state schools remain closed due to the threat. President Muhammadu Buhari in February called on state governments to stop paying bandidos, and Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai publicly refuses to pay. But desperate parents and communities often raise and pay ransoms themselves. Related: Bethel Baptist High School: 2021-07-26 Kidnappers in Nigeria release 28 schoolchildren, another 81 still held, says negotiator Bethel Baptist High School: 2021-07-12 Nigeria: Bandits Kill 84 in Two Weeks, Buhari Expresses Sorrow Bethel Baptist High School: 2021-07-06 Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Let them play with the monkeys, then turned them loose after the Marburg incubated? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-23 16:57 |