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CBN should pay N100m Greenfield students ransom before it s too late – Gumi
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The NAPTAN National President, Alhaji
Haruna Danjuma, has called on the abductors to
“please and please” not to execute or hurt any other students that is in their captivity, and begged them to extend the deadline and time of their execution in other for the parents to meet their demand. Danjuma said in Kaduna on Tuesday that there is the need to beg the bandits in view of the situation some of the students find themselves since the day they were kidnapped and kept in the forest. Saying that there is high tensions and fears among all the families, relatives and other concerned citizens in the state since the moment they threatened to kill all the remaining students on a radio station.
Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday urged government not to take threats by kidnappers of students of Greenfield University, Kaduna lightly. Gumi, who stated this in an interview with The PUNCH, said the Central Bank of Nigeria should pay the N100m ransom being demanded by the kidnappers of the students.
He made the call as a parent of one of the abductees lamented the kidnappers were insisting on a ransom of N100m. The parent, who spoke to one of our correspondents in Kaduna on condition of anonymity, lamented the bandits were still insisting on their demands and threatening to kill the students. No fewer than 23 students and a member of staff of the university were abducted from the school on 20 April 2021. Few days later, 5 of the students were killed by the bandits.