FG won't pay ransom to kidnappers, Tinubu insists

The Federal Government has affirmed its position on no ransom payment for kidnapped persons in Nigeria.

This was one of the outcomes of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Only last werk, some 600 people wers kidnapped in Borno and Kaduna states.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Muhammad Idris, who spoke to the press after the FEC meeting, said President Tinubu also gave a directive to the security forces to ensure that the abducted school children and their teachers in Kaduna are rescued.

The minister, however, reemphasized that the president said the Federal Government would not pay any ransom to kidnappers and that the current administration is determined to tackle kidnapping and other criminal activities in the country.

He said under the current government, kidnapping, especially mass abduction will not be tolerated.

At least 60 persons were kidnapped by bandits at Buba village in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Tuesday.

The fresh Kajuru attack occurred barely five days after bandits invaded the Kuriga community in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state and kidnapped 287 students of LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School located in the community.