The remaining 23 Abuja-Kaduna train victims rescued on
Thursday have finally reunited with their families.
The families of the victims had in the early hours of
Thursday waited patiently for long hours to receive their loved ones who have
been in the hands of their abductees for over six months.
President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier met with the victims
at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, before they were taken to the
NAF Hospital.
It was gathered that
some of the victims are in critical condition and are receiving treatment at
the NAF Hospital.
Explaining how the victims were rescued from their
abductors, Dr AbdulMalik Atta, a member of the Presidential Committee that
facilitated the rescue of the hostages, who spoke on Channels Television’s live
interview, said that the terrorists’ negotiator, Malam Tukur Mamu, did
everything within his reach to thwart the federal government’s efforts at
rescuing the hostages for his own interest.
He further explained that Malam Tukur Mamu derailed the
entire process by bringing money into the whole issue, saying that the
terrorists never asked for money.
Atta, who is also a son of one of the kidnapped victims
said, “because of Mamu’s introduction of money into the rescue process, the
victims’ families had parted with over $200,000 prior to the Chief of Defence
Staff’s intervention.”
According to him, the Presidential Committee made
life-threatening sacrifices, as they had to go into the forest to meet with the
terrorists and even slept in the bush.
He stated that it has been six months and one week, but
thanked God that everything has come to an end now and lauded the support from
the federal government through the office of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
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