Armed bandits that kidnapped the 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State last Sunday have raised the ransom for their freedom to N200m.
The bandits
had initially, demanded the sum of N110m in order to set their victims who were
mostly girls free, with a threat that failure to deliver the ransom by
Thursday, they would kill them.
The bandits
presently were said to have reached out to the parents, disclosing that the
money had been increased to N200m with the same warning if the deadline was not
met.
Mallam Ali
Mohammed, a Tipper Driver and a father of five of the abductees confirmed the
new development to DAILY POST, saying that the bandits contacted them on
Thursday, disclosing that the ransom has been raised to N200m from the N110m
they initially demanded.
The father of
the five children in a telephone chat insisted that the bandits are serious
about their threats of killing the children, if they fail to meet their demand.
Weeping,
Mohammed stated, “the bandits are serious about killing our children if we
cannot pay. We are poor people, we don’t have such money, we plead with the
government to come to our assistance. We are feeling so abandoned.”
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