By Ayodele Oni
After 20 months in captivity, the remaining four of 11 girls of the Federal Governments College, Yauri, Kebbi State, have regained freedom from kidnappers den.
The 11 students were kidnapped when bandits invaded their school on June 17, 2021.
The freedom, it was gathered, was made possible after ransom running into millions of Naira, was paid to a notorious bandit kingpin, Dogo Daji.
It was learnt that two of the released students returned with two babies delivered while in captivity.
Dogo Daji had insisted that some conditions must be met by Kebbi State Government before the remaining girls could be released.
Report said the ransom had to be generated by parents and other stakeholders when Kebbi State Government was reluctant to meet the bandits’ demands.
The parents had to beg Nigerians to come to their aid financially in order to rescue their children from their abductors.
In a letter addressed to Nigerians in January 2023, the group known as “Committee of Parents of 11 Abducted Students of F.G.C Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, Nigeria,” passionately solicited financial assistance towards raising the sum of N100 million as ransom to be paid to the terrorists, in exchange for their wards.
In their letter, the Chairman and Secretary of the ‘Committee of Parents, Salim Ka’oje and Mr. Daniel Alkali respectively, said their female children, aged between 12-16 years, had been in the custody of their abductors for about 20 months now.
And the abductors are demanding the sum of N100 million before they release the girls.
It was reported, at the time that some of the girls had become teenage mothers, while about four others were pregnant.
