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General News of Monday, 23 August 2021

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Kaduna Baptist students abductors promise to free all abductees

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Some parents of the abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, have stated that the abductors contacted them to pick up their children at different locations with the promise that the students have all been freed.

But it turns out that only 15 of the students, who were kidnapped in July, were released on Sunday, August 22, after 46 days in the captors’ den.

The students, who were picked up at different locations by their parents were discovered to be weak and could barely walk.

“They called us individually and told us to come and pick our children. When we got to the location they left our children, we found them very weak, barely able to work,” one of the parents, Samuel, revealed.

Another parent, Ruth Makama, stated that she was called upon to come for her daughter, but on getting there, she discovered her daughter was not one of those released.

Twenty-eight students were earlier released after the payment of N50 million, while the latest release was after the payment of an additional N24 million.

The students, 121 in numbers, according to the President, Kaduna Baptist Conference, who is also the Proprietor of the school, Rev. Ishaya Jangado, were kidnapped in the early hours of July 5, 2021, around 2 am on the school premises along the Kaduna-Kachia highway, Damishi, Chikun LGA of the state.