A counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, Makama Zagazola has tweeted in a video that four female students in Zamfara have raised alarm over their abductors’ threat to marry them off if ransom of N12 million was not paid within a week.
The victims, Aisha Yahaya, Jamila Yahaya, Ummu Sani, and Hauwa Garba – had appealed to Governor Dauda Lawal to rescue them from the hands of abductors.
The four female students were kidnapped along the Birnin Magaji-Kaura Namoda Road in Zamfara almost six months ago.
The four girls were seen in the video saying “For God’s sake, our mothers, we are in big trouble. We have been here since the administration of the former government. We have spent 174 days inside the forest; that is almost six months.
“For the sake of God, our mothers, we have no one apart from you. Come and rescue us. The former governor could not rescue us. We are begging the new government of Dauda Lawal to help us.
“I am an orphan, my father is dead, please help us for God’s sake. My mother has no resources, please help us. These guys have vowed to marry us off within a week.”
Activities of bandits and other terrorists in the North West states have claimed hundreds of lives and raised concerns among both local and international communities.
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