A parent of one of the abducted students of Greenfield
University in Kaduna says they were already negotiating with the kidnappers for
the release of their children.
A yet-to-be-known number of students were on Tuesday
abducted from the private academic institution after some gunmen attacked the
school.
Three days after the incident, the bodies of three of the
students, a male and two females, were
found in Kwanan Bature village, a location close to the university.
Two of the victims were identified as Abubakar Yusuf Sanga
(male) and Dorathy Tirnon Yohanna (female).
According to THE NATION, a parent who spoke on condition of
anonymity said they did not expect the students to be harmed as they were
already in contact with kidnappers.
The parent said the kidnappers demanded a collective ransom
of N800 million to release all the abducted students.
“We are still in shock. We did not expect the bandits would
resort to killing our children because they had contacted us since Wednesday
and demanded ransom,” the parent was quoted to have said.
“They called us (the
parents) directly and individually, but they demanded a collective ransom of
N800 million.
“So, yesterday (Thursday) we (the parents) met on the school
premises and we called them trying to negotiate the ransom, but they insisted
on the N800 million.
“Yes, we pleaded with them (bandits) that the amount they
were asking for was too much and beyond our power, but we never imagined or
expected they were going to be so cruel and resort to killing our children.”
Nasir el-Rufai, the state governor, said the killing of the
students was “sheer wickedness, inhumanity and an outright desecration of human
lives by vile entities”.
He described bandits as representing “the worst of humankind
and must be fought at all cost for the violent wickedness they represent”.
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