The federal and state governments have been urged to secure the release of the remaining 11 students of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri from the bandits.
Chief Imam of Halliru Bello Juma’at Mosque in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Malam Tukur Kola, made the plea on Friday during his sermon said it had been over a year since bandits invaded the FGC in Birnin Yauri and abducted the students.
Recall that bandits abducted 96 students and eight teachers from the College on Thursday, 17 June 2021; many were released to the state government in batches. But 11 of them are still in captivity for over one and a half years now.
“The state and federal governments should hasten the release of the students because their parents are living in agony and depression over the fate of their children still being held in bandits’ hideouts.
“Many were disappointed in how the government handled the release of the remaining 11 students from the bandits. Their abductors are alive and staying in the forest of Kebbi and Niger states. How come it’s difficult for the government to secure the students’ release,” he said.
Imam Kola stated that reports reaching him were that some of the abducted students had been delivered in the bandits’ hideouts. “One of the mothers of abducted students died on hearing the news of her daughter delivering a baby for bandits”.
