Sani
Friday, one of the parents of the abducted students of Federal College of
Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna, says the state government has abandoned
them to their fate.
Friday,
who represented the parents of the abducted students, said this on Tuesday in
an interview on ‘Sunrise Daily’, a Channels Television programme.
The father
of two kidnapped students said the trauma from the incident keeps worsening as
the kidnappers now call individual parents to demand ransom.
He faulted the government’s refusal to negotiate and pay ransom, saying the parents can only appeal to the abductors to “create a platform where they can negotiate, and at the same time appeal to them to reduce their demands to the level we can be able to raise”.
“We the
parents are worried about the situation, and we must confess that we are not
happy. There is tension everywhere, most especially now that we are hearing
about the killing of the students that were abducted from the Greenfield
University,” he said.
“Our
children have spent about 47 days in captivity, and it seems nobody is saying
anything about it.
“The
parents are worried. The trauma is becoming too hard on us. The kidnappers
started calling us recently that they are growing out of patience, they are
calling individual parents to come and pay the ransom.
“The price they are placing on each child is
N5 million, if you must get your child out.
“And the
government position remain the same, they have refused to change position that
they will not negotiate with the bandits. This is the situation we have found
ourselves.
“It is
like we have been abandoned by the state government; we have been abandoned by
the forestry research institute and we are still calling on them to do
something.”
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