By John Ikani
14 abducted students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State, Nigeria have regained their freedom.
According to Channels TV, they were released on Saturday, May 29, 2021, at a location along the Kaduna- Abuja highway.
They were received by the chairman of the Parents Forum, Markus Zarmai, and few others at the location where they were released along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.
parents of the abducted students said that they paid a ransom, in addition to providing eight new motorcycles to the kidnappers before they agreed to release their children. The parents did not say how much they paid.
It would be recalled that twenty-two undergraduates were seized from their campus weeks ago by gunmen in April. Five of them have since been killed by the captors.
In an interview with the VOA Hausa, the leader of the team, Sani Idris Jalingo (also known as Baleri), handed down the threat to kill the remaining students by Tuesday if they refused to pay the ransom.
Kaduna State and the Nigerian Government had discouraged parents of the abducted students from paying ransom to kidnappers.
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari in May appealed for “the release of the students of the Greenfield University.”
