Bandits Release 70 Islamiyya Students After 80 Days

Over 70 pupils of Islamiyya school in Tegina town who were kidnapped by armed bandits in Niger State have been released by their abductors.

The pupils, PRNigeria reported, were abducted from their school premises in June.

A security source told PRNigeria that the students are on their way to Minna en route Kagara from Birnin Gwari.

The Islamiya pupils were held for 88 days and 11 hours according to the timeline of the days and time they have spent in the bandits’ captivity.

PRNigeria has been publishing counts-up since the abductions of some pupils and students in Northern Nigeria. The Abducted students of Yauri Federal Government College have been in captivity for 70 days while the remaining abducted students of a Baptist School in Kaduna will be spending their 52nd days in captivity.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the continued abduction of the school students was in spite of the assurances earlier given by President Muhammadu Buhari following the abduction and release of the students of a girls secondary school in Zamfara that the abductions will no longer happen.

However, following that assurance the bandits have continued to lay siege to the nation’s schools and climaxed their actions with the invasion of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna last Tuesday. In that attack at least two officers were killed and two abducted.

The release of the Islamiyya students by the bandits is bound to come as a relief to the parents of the students and it follows claims that the bandits called to say that six of the students died in captivity.

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