Abducted schoolgirls
Kidnappers free two remaining FGC Yauri girls after 707 days
The two remaining abducted students of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, have been freed early morning of today, Thursday.
This is after 707 days they were kidnapped from their school by their abductors.
The two remaining female students, Faida Sani Kaoje and Safiya Idris, were released after intensive negotiations by a special committee set up by their families and wellwishers, with the leadership of the bandits.
A notorious bandit kingpin, Dogo Gide, had insisted that some conditions must be met by the Kebbi State Government, before the remaining girls could be released.
On April 22, 2023, four Yauri female students with two babies, were freed after payments of huge ransom to Dogo Gide.
Weeks later, precisely on May 7, three other girls Elizabeth Ogechi Nwafor, Esther Sunday and Aliya Abubakar, were also freed by their captors.
The release were effected after a huge ransom was generated by parents and other stakeholders when the Kebbi Sate Government was reluctant to meet the bandits’ demands.
The parents had to beg Nigerians to come to their aid financially in order to rescue their children from their abductors.
In a letter addressed to all Nigerians in January 2023, the group known as “Committee of Parents of 11 Abducted Students of F.G.C Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, Nigeria,” passionately solicited financial assistance towards raising the sum of N100 million as ransom to be paid to the terrorists, in exchange for their wards.
In their letter, the Chairman and Secretary of the ‘Committee of Parents, Salim Ka’oje and Mr. Daniel Alkali respectively, said their female children (aged between 12-16 years) had been in the custody of their abductors for about 20 months now.
“…And the abductors are demanding the sum of N100 million before they release the girls,” they added.
The 11 students were kidnapped when bandits invaded their school on 17 June, 2021.
In November last year, some of the girls had become teenage mothers, while about four others were pregnant.
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