Police Claim Ignorance Of Ransom As Bandits Release 15 More Bethel Students

Fifteen more abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Damishi, Kaduna State, have regained their freedom, after 48 days in captivity but the police is claiming ignorance of a ransom payment on the latest release.

Rev. John Hayab, the state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), said this when he spoke with newsmen in Kaduna on Sunday.

“Fifteen more students were released on Saturday night and 65 students are still with the bandits, ” he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that bandits in the early hours of July 5, invaded the school and kidnapped an unspecified number of students.

ASP Mohammed Jalige, spokesperson for the police command in the state also confirmed the release of the students.

Jalige, however, said that the police was not in the picture of whether ransom was paid by the parents before the Bethel students release or not.

“We are not aware of that,” he said.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the bandits who kidnapped the students from their school made demands of ransom for the release of the students.

However, despite the payment of N50 million ransom to the bandits by the parents and the school, the bandits held on to 83 of the Bethel students as they demanded for more ransom and the police apparently helpless to intervene.

With the Nasir El-Rufai government unwilling to negotiate with the bandits the weight of the demands was left on the parents who continued clandestinely to negotiate and make payments to the bandits.

It is not known what was paid to the bandits this time around for the release of the 15 students.

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