Bandits Release Three More Abducted Train Passengers

By Adesina Soyooye

After the horrifying and heartbreaking whipping of the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna Train Passengers seen in a video released on Sunday, their abductors have released three more of the Passengers.

The haunting video showed the bandits mercilessly whipping their victims. There were children amongst them. Thereafter, the bandits boasted that they would abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, take them to the forest and slaughter them.

The Presidency reacted to the outrage by saying the President had done even more than is required of him as the Commander-in-Chief to equip the Military to do its job.

Far from being clueless, the Presidency said, the Military is capable of bombing the location of the bandits, but is conscious of the collateral damages. The Passengers, it said could, also, be wiped out.

However, 24 hours later, the bandits released three more of the Passengers – two men and a woman.

It is not known the circumstances behind the recent release, but it is alleged that those that had been released, paid N100m each.

A relation of one of the three released told the BBC Hausa Service that the three released Passengers were now in a hospital for necessary health care.

The Train Passengers were abducted on March 28, 2022.