One abducted Greenfield University student freed
According to
Voice of America (VOA), one of the remaining 17 abducted students of Nigeria’s Greenfield University, Aaron Attahiru, was released on Tuesday 4 May after his parents negotiated with the kidnappers and paid a ransom. It follows the abduction almost two weeks ago of 22 undergraduates from their campus. Five of them have since been killed by their captors, writes Abisola Olasupo for
The Guardian Nigeria.
The released student’s mother Lauretta Attahiru, who confirmed the development to journalists on Tuesday 4 May, did not elaborate on the release of her son.
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The federal government yesterday expressed its commitment to do all it could to save the remaining 16 students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, whose abductors have threatened to kill for the delay in ransoming them.
At a press conference in Abuja where he faulted the recommendations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in resolving the growing insecurity in the country, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the federal government, in line with its constitutional responsibility of protecting all Nigerians, would not fold its arms and allow the bandits who kidnapped the students execute them.
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.