Bandits have demanded N200 million ransom for the release of
156 Islamiyya students abducted in Niger state.
On May 27, bandits attacked Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school in
Tegina town, Rafi LGA, and abducted several schoolchildren.
On Wednesday, the bandits demanded N110 million ransom for
the kidnapped pupils. However, the situation has taken a new turn as the
bandits raised their demand to N200 million.
Abubakar Alhassan, the school head-teacher and a parent of
two of the abducted children, made the revelation while speaking with Arise TV on
Friday.
“They say I should not even talk about N110 million again
but N200 million,” he said.
“I was begging them but they didn’t listen. They cut the
phone and I haven’t heard from them.”
On her part, Hadiya Hashim, another parent of three abducted
children, lamented the terrible situation of the pupils.
She said the children were starved for three days and
deprived of water.
“The situation these children are in, you can’t imagine. You
know they don’t have houses in the bush. Initially, the scanty report we
received, on Monday, said they kept the children under a big tree and they
starved them for three days without giving them any water,” she said.
Barely 24 hours after the attack, Abubakar Bello, governor
of the state, travelled out of the country.
Tanko Zagi, a parent of one of the abducted children, said
they have felt little impact of the state government since the abduction.
“Since that day up till now, we have not seen anything from
the state government. But the local government chairman has been up and doing
so that these children can be rescued. But the state government, we don’t know.
No official of the government has come to condole with us,” he said
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