Abductors of 15 Qur’anic students in Sokoto State by bandits have demanded N20 million for their release of the students, the PUNCH reports.
Liman Abubakar, the school’s proprietor, disclosed this information on Tuesday.
The students were taken by the bandits during a raid on Gidan Bakuso village in the Gada Local Government area early Saturday morning. Abubakar mentioned that the bandits contacted him, asking for a ransom of N20 million in exchange for the students’ freedom.
He said, “They (the bandits) called me this morning around 11 am and directed me to meet our village head and tell him to raise N20 million for the children.
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“I went and discussed the matter with the village head but we are yet to conclude.”
Meanwhile, the state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ahmed Rufai, said the command was still working on the release of the students.
“We are still searching the surrounding villages and forest to get the exact location of where the kids are being held.
“We are on it and hopefully we will get them rescued,” he added.
The 15 students from an Islamiya school in Sokoto State who were abducted in the early hours of Saturday appear to be unaffected by the threats of a crackdown on bandits and terrorists who kidnap schoolchildren.
This follows the kidnapping of 287 students in Kaduna State on Thursday. More than 200 internally displaced people were taken from their camp in Borno State on Wednesday.
President Bola Tinubu responded to the events by giving security personnel orders to ensure that everyone who had been kidnapped was immediately rescued.
