KADUNA STUDENTS ABDUCTION: How We Regained Freedom - Student Reveals | READ IN FULL
Faith Ukanwa
Apr 08, 2021
One out of the 39 kidnapped students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Mando, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has narrated how five of the students regained freedom.
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Francis Paul, a 200 level undergraduate of Agricultural Technology said;
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"We were just on the roll in the afternoon, some of them (bandits) just came and started selecting us and by that time, I am very ill and they asked me to sit up and that I should get up and then selected other female students. They put us on the bike and dropped us on a nearby village close to the main road and told us that when we get to the main road we should ask of a particular village.
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"I feel happy that I am released but whenever I think about my colleagues, I don't really feel happy because being there is no fun, being there is not nice.
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"We are just praying to God that God should just release us from that place because those people don't really know God. They don't treat us like people who know GodÔÇØ.
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Recall that on March 11, suspected bandits invaded the Federal College, abducted 39 students, and demanded N500 Million ransom.
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"It was on the 11th of March that we were taken from the hostel. The bandits came and woke us from our sleep and took us out of the compound. They told us to lay on the ground.
"After they asked us to lay down on the ground, they took us through where they broke the fence with digger outside the school.
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"It was when they took us through the fence out of the hostel that we saw many of them outside with bikes. It was from there that they took us from one place to another.ÔÇØ
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"They were flogging us just because they wanted us to talk about the money they want from the government. They said if they see that they are flogging us the government will be serious to send the money to them. No one was rapedÔÇØ Paul said.
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— Faith Ukanwa