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30 more kidnapped Nigerian students freed
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ABUJA, 10 January 2022, (TON): According to a local official “gunmen in northwest Nigeria’s Kebbi state have freed 30 students and a teacher after seven months of captivity.”
More than 1,400 children were abduted in Nigeria last year according to the United Nations, mostly during attacks on schools and colleges by gunmen known locally as “bandits”.
The UN added “students are often quickly released after ransom payments but 200 were still missing in September.”
Thirty students of Federal Government College and one teacher have arrived in Birnin Kebbi “following their release,” Yahaya Sarki, a spokesman for the Kebbi state governor.
He added in a statement “they shall undergo medical screening and support while being reunited with their families. It was unclear if ransom was paid for the release of the students or if any others were still in captivity.”
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