Bandits, who kidnapped 138 students of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, in May in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, have held onto a man shipped off convey N30 million as another portion of the payoff they requested from the guardians.
The guardians had before sent an underlying portion of N25 million payoff, the top of the kidnapped understudies’ school, Abubakar Alhassan, disclosed to BBC Hausa Service Sunday morning.
The stole man, Kasimu Barangana, was one of seven people sent by the local area to convey the N30 million payment to the bandits in the backwoods.
All things being equal, the bandits held onto Mr Barangana himself charging a setback of N4.6 million when they checked the cash.
Mr Alhassan said a few guardians auctions off their landed properties and his school auctions off a part of its territory to raise the N30 million. They then, at that point sent Mr Barangana and six different men to convey the cash in the woods.
As per Mr Alhassan, after the payoff was conveyed, the bandits took Mr Barangana to another area to tally the cash. Afterward, nonetheless, they called to illuminate the local area regarding the deficit of N4.6 million and that they were clutching Mr Barangana until the shortage is conveyed.
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Another instructor in the school, Yakubu Idris, and one of the guardians affirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the most recent N30 million payment followed a prior N25 million, after which conveyance the crooks had kept on clutching the students.
“We accept that the most recent N30 million payoff is finished yet the bandits have kept on conceiving a way to get more cash from the guardians,” the parent said, declining to uncover their personality in light of the fact that the state government has supposedly illegal them from giving media interviews.
Prior, the Secretary to the State Government, Ibrahim Matane, clarified why the public authority is yet to apply power in saving the students.
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