Fourteen of the abducted students of Greenfield University
in Kaduna state have regained their freedom.
TheCable reports that they were released on Saturday along
the Kaduna-Abuja highway.
Mohammad Jalige, spokesman of the Kaduna state police
command, also confirmed the development.
The students were abducted on April 18 when suspected
bandits attacked the institution.
Three of them are still being held — almost six weeks after
their kidnap.
The suspected bandits had killed five of the students and
threatened to kill the others if a ransom of N100 million and 10 motorcycles
are not delivered to them
It is still not clear yet if the ransom was eventually paid
to secure their freedom.
Jalige did not immediately provide details on how the
students were released.
“Fourteen of the students have been released this evening,
remaining three students are in captivity”, he said on phone.
Mohammed Bashir, the school registrar, also said they are in
the process of receiving the students.
It had been widely reported that their abductors were
bandits who are notorious for attacking schools and remote communities across
states in the north.
But Ahmad Gumi, a prominent Islamic cleric who is known to
have access to the bandits, said the students were kidnapped by Boko Haram
insurgents — not the bandits.
He had said: “We have two groups of bandits. We have the
ordinary Fulani ethnic herdsmen and now there is another element which is
coming in, it is the terrorist, the religious idealogues and this is what I’ve
been fearing.
“The issue is getting compounded because this element is
coming in; Boko Haram is coming into the scene now. They are the ones that
captured Greenfield students. It is not a question of sleeping. You have to act
very fast.”
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