'WE PAID WITH CASH, DRINKS, MILK TO RESCUE OUR CHILDREN’


Parents of the abducted students of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Kaduna State, said they paid between N500,000 and N4 million to get each of their children released.
According to them though some handed over the ransom to members of the Kaduna syndicate, the rest of them were approached separately and made to carry the ransom to the kidnappers’ enclave on the Kaduna-Abuja highway.

They said the kidnappers also demanded that they bring maltina and milk with the cash.

“They called me on Saturday and said if I am unable to pay N1 million, they would kill the girls, marry them or use them as sex slaves.

“On arriving Kaduna, we were told that security personnel were monitoring the bandits in the bush but, surprisingly, the bandits called us to come and wait at Abuja junction.

“They gave us a phone number to contact them. We called the number, and the person came to take us to the car, Unknown to me the driver of the car was also a parent; his daughter was one of the kidnap victims.

“We drove on the Kaduna/Abuja road about 11pm to deliver the ransom and other things they were asking for one of them said.

According to him, the bandits still asked each parent for crates of maltina drink and cartons of milk.

“When we got to Dutse, we stopped at the junction of the bush. We talked with the soldiers there. They found that all of us were carrying bags, and we told them that we were taking money to pay ransom for the students who had been kidnapped. The soldiers wished us a safe journey to the forest, and we parked our car at the junction.

“The bandits are very clever, they planned everything very well. We came back and picked the vehicle where we parked by the main road and returned with the girls to Kaduna around 1am on Sunday.”

Another parent said: “Some parents paid N1 million, some paid over N1 million, some paid N2 million, some paid over N500,000, depending on how each parent bargains with the hoodlums because they spoke separately with us.

“Some parents were asked to drop their money at a particular place at Abuja junction and leave the place then somebody picks the money, count it and notify those people in the bush. Four of us went to deliver the money but we didn’t know that we were all victims.

“After series of bargaining, they said I should pay N1 million, but I told them that I could not raise that amount. I told them I have over N500,000 and they told me to bring it.

“I had to sell my goats, pigs and other belongings to raise the money.”


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