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Why Bethel Baptist’s Head Boy agreed to leave kidnappers’ den
Of the four students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, still with their kidnappers, one, the school’s Head Boy, who had refused to leave, has come home.
Recall that that in the early hours of July 5, gunmen invaded Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria, and kidnapped 153 students.
Since, the kidnappers have been collecting ransoms and releasing the captives in bacthes.
However, the Head Boy had refused to join those coming home, stating that as long as a student was still in captivity, he won’t come home.
But he fell ill and the bandits ask for N5 million ransom. It was paid and the boy came home, now taking treatment.
The Bethel Head Boy’s predicament was revealed by Vice chairman of CAN (North) and its Chairman in Kaduna State, Rev. Joseph John Hayab.
He said it while narrating how some of the released students that had missed their O’level exams, while in the kidnappers’ den, were denied any consideration by the National Examination Council, NECO.
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‘Head Boy is a hero’
Hayab said: “Two days ago, the bandits released one boy out of the four Bethel Baptist High School students, that are with them.
“It was the Head Boy. He had refused to come back in all the times students were freed.
“But he fell terribly ill because of the long time they’ve been in the bush. So the bandits had to put pressure on us for another money.
“They insist that for the four people we must pay a fresh N5 million per person.
“But when we made efforts and almost that N5 million was given to them, they released only the Head Boy, who actually is weak and down.
“He has tried. He had refused to come home, saying until every student is back that, he cannot leave.
“But because of ill health, he had to be released; but we had to pay money.
“That boy is worth celebrating. If at his age he can display that kind of leadership, we are so impressed.
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“Nigerians need to know that our students are still with these bandits. All the Bethel Baptist High School students have not come back.
“Three are still with them now since they have released the Head boy.
“They are demanding from us N5 million per head for the remaining three. We have paid them huge sum of money, but look at how they are treating us.
“This makes us ask questions. All this shutting down of network, what has happened to it
“Have we not used it to track criminals? Have we not used it that these bandits could still keep our children to be demanding money from us?
“Because our understanding is that the security agents would’ve been able to track them.”
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Gunmen kidnap 2 FRSC officers along Abakaliki-Enugu highway
Gunmen kidnap 2 FRSC officers along Abakaliki-Enugu highway
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ebonyi has confirmed the abduction of two of its personnel by gunmen along the Abakaliki-Enugu federal highway.
The road has recently become nightmarish for commuters due to incessant abductions by gunmen. The most affected are the Nkalagu (Ebonyi) and Idodo (Enugu) axes of the road.
The sector commander of the FRSC in Ebonyi, Henry Igwe, told journalists on Tuesday in Abakaliki that both personnel were abducted on March 8.
Mr Igwe remarked that both personnel concluded their duties at the corps’ Nkalagu office and were abducted as they returned to Enugu.
He said the corps contacted their families, who informed them that the officers had yet to return home.
“The families said that some people contacted them that they were kidnappers and were demanding ransom.
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“The negotiations are between the families and kidnappers, and as an organisation, we have been doing the much we can,” he said.
The sector commander said his office had informed its headquarters of the development and formally reported to relevant security agencies.
He noted that it had not been established that the personnel were either alive or dead, but the fact remained that they had not been seen.
Jude Okpor, Ebonyi Commissioner for Information and Orientation, dismissed the insinuation that the state government was nonchalant about the situation.
“The matter has inter-state connectivity, and the government has initiated measures with its affected sister state to nip it in the bud,” he said.
DSP Joshua Ukandu, the police public relations officer in Ebonyi, urged families of victims to report such incidents to the command so that it can establish whether the incident happened at the Ebonyi axis of the road.
“The situation is more of an Enugu issue, and information on it should be sought from the Enugu command of the force.
“I believe some steps are being taken to combat it, but our safer highway teams stationed on the affected axis always assist commuters in crossing safely from the area,” he said.
Gunmen kidnap 2 FRSC officers along Abakaliki-Enugu highway
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Driver killed, 16 passengers abducted on Abuja-Lokoja road
Driver killed, 16 passengers abducted on Abuja-Lokoja road
Gunmen have shot dead a bus driver and abducted his 16 passengers near Chikara village on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.
According to Daily Trust, the incident happened on Thursday around 12am when the gunmen opened fire on a Sharon bus at a bend near Yakwo Farms.
It was gathered the bus driver was killed instantly, while the occupants, including a nursing mother, were whisked away into the bush.
Another commercial bus driver, Saidu Ibrahim, said, “I was driving behind the bus that was shot at, but as God would have it, there was no vehicle coming from behind me and I applied brakes and reversed with speed and escaped.”
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A member of the Abaji branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Danjuma Suleiman, also who confirmed the incident, said six among the kidnapped victims, including two women and a nursing mother, were later freed.
He said, “That night, six of the victims were freed as the abductors discovered that one of them, a nursing mother, was not strong enough to trek into the bush.”
Suleiman further said that the victims were travelling from Delta State to Lafia, Nasarawa State.
The remains of the bus driver was deposited at the Abaji General Hospital.
The spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, SP Williams Ovey Ayah, did not pick calls or reply to a text message sent to him on the incident.
Driver killed, 16 passengers abducted on Abuja-Lokoja road
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Man arrested in Edo attempting to kill uncle
Man arrested in Edo attempting to kill uncle
The police in Edo State have arrested a 22-year-old man, Francis Obinna Okoye, for allegedly being in possession of a pistol with the intention to kill his uncle over an allegation of killing his father with charms.
It was learnt that Obinna was travelling in a commercial bus from Lagos to Anambra State when the bus was intercepted by the police on the Benin-Lagos road close to the Ovia River.
Parading the suspect, the command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, said the suspect was arrested after nine rounds of live ammunition, an English pistol and a POS machine, all concealed in a bag were discovered to be his.
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He further said, “The suspect confessed that one Kelvin gave him the gun to avenge his father’s death after his aunt told him that his uncle, one Mr Paul Okoye, killed his father with charms.”
He further said that investigation revealed that the suspect’s claim on who gave him the gun was false.
In an interview with journalists, the suspect said, “The gun was found with me but I am not the owner. My friend, Kelvin, gave it to me and I was taking it to Anambra State to threaten my uncle who my aunt, Amarachi, told me had a hand in my father’s death. The POS machine is mine. I registered it with my store’s name.”
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