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13 Abducted Yauri Schoolgirls ‘Married Off’ To Bandits
- It was gathered that between 11 and 14 of the students are still being held by Gide…
- …at least 10 schools abductions were recorded last year…
EKO HOT BLOG reports that eight months after the abduction of 80 students from the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, in Kebbi State, more than 10 of them are still being held by their captives, despite payment of ransom and prisoner swap, at different times.
According to Daily Trust, at least 13 of the female students were married off to bandits with some of them already pregnant.
Read also: How Bandits Abducted Daughters Of Community Leader Weeks Before Their Wedding
Bandits loyal to a kingpin, Dogo Gide, ransacked the school on June 17, last year, and left with dozens of students and five teachers of the federal government-owned mixed boarding school.
It was gathered that between 11 and 14 of the students are still being held by Gide with only one of them a male.
Also, one more student of Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna is still being held by his abductors, over seven months after he and scores of his schoolmates were rounded off at night by attackers who killed two security personnel on guard duty.
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Recall that at least 10 schools abductions were recorded last year as bandits’ gangs targeted schools in Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger and Kebbi states.
The abductions followed the first of such attacks by bandits in December 2020 when a gang led by one Auwal Daudawa attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State, and abducted over 200 students.
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