Fifteen of the remaining 80 kidnapped students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna have been released by bandits.
Bandits broke into the school located at Damishi along the Kaduna – Kachia highway, Chikun Local Government Area in the early hours of July 5, 2021 and whisked 121 boarding students.
While confirming the development to our correspondent in Kaduna on Sunday, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State, Rev John Joseph Hayab, said “15 were released last night. We have chosen not to make it elaborate since we still have 65 left and the pace of the release is slow for our expectation.”
The remaining 65 students are still in captivity.
According to Hayab, there would be no reunion ceremony for the freed students as their parents will simply pick them up and go home.
Earlier, the bandits who were said to have collected N100 million ransom, said they would release the students in batches when they freed the first batch of 28 on July 25, 2021.
But the bandits made a U-turn and demanded a fresh N80 million ransom on the remaining 80 students.