This brings to 16 the total number of kidnap victims, who have so far regained their freedom from their abductors as part of the swap agreements reached between the bandits and Katsina state government in the ongoing dialogue
A statement by the Director General Media to the Governor, Labaran Malumfashi, said the freed women and baby were looked very haggard, jaded, sickly and hungry.
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They were brought to the office of Governor Aminu Masari by two representatives of the bandits around 5.30 pm.
The statement added: ’’The successful exchange of detainees between the government and the bandits, represents a fundamental milestone in the efforts by Governor Masari and his colleagues from the North West, notably Governors Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state and Mohammed Bello Matawallin of Zamfara, to bring to a permanent end the menace of banditry, kidnapping and cattle rusting, all of which have of late assumed a frightening dimension in Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto states.
‘’The release of the 10 women and the baby, the second time in the day, has also demonstrated the sincerity of purpose by the two sides of the engagement, thus giving short thrift to the skeptics who didn’t believe that the arrangement would work.’’
