Abducted Kaduna students in new video say they’re starving

Kidnappers of 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka Kaduna, have released another video showing the remaining 29 students and other victims in their captivity.

The students in the four minute 55 second video pleaded with their parents to pay so they could be freed, adding that they being starved.

The bandits have demanded N500 million ransom from the government and contacted the abdutees’ parents when Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s administration insisted it was not going to negotiate or pay ransom.

One of the students, a pregnant woman, identified by the bandits as Hajiya, asked their parents to rescue them because of what they were passing through.

She added they had been without food for the past 47 days with the bandits.

She said, “We are appealing to our parents to help us. We are tired and there is no food.

“They should do their best to get us out of this place. We have spent 47 days, almost all of us are ill and there is no food. We sleep in the open even when it rains.”

Another woman, who was shown in the video, said she was kidnapped from Agwa in the Chikun Local Government Area, adding her husband is a military officer based in Warri, Delta State.

She pleaded with the Federal Government to come for their rescue, saying the bandits had earlier agreed on N30 million ransom for their release.