Bandits Free 28 Abducted Kebbi Students After Four Months In Captivity

• Two students and two teachers – a male and a female – were brought out from the forests and received by security personnel and medics stationed at Kotonkoro town…

EKO HOT BLOG reports that 28 kidnapped students and two teachers of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri were released on Wednesday by bandits, following days of waiting by their relatives and officials.

The victims were abducted four months ago by a notorious bandit, Dogo Gide, who alongside his gang, overpowered security men on guard at the school located in a remote part of Kebbi State. 

The victims who were expected to be released last week were held by the bandits as the process could not be perfected due to the inability of mediators to meet with the kingpin.

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Two students and two teachers – a male and a female – were brought out from the forests and received by security personnel and medics stationed at Kotonkoro town, near the bandits-infested forests on Sunday.

The latest party arrived Kotonkoro around 8:30pm on Wednesday, it was learnt.

“From Kotonkoro, they will be taken to Kontagora, before they are transported tomorrow (this morning) to Birnin Kebbi,” Daily Trust quoted a source as saying. 

But another source said the freed students and teachers might likely be brought to Minna, the Niger State capital, and then to Abuja, before they would be taken to the Kebbi State capital.

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