The former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General, Maharazu Tsiga (Rtd), and some other persons were abducted, alongside nine other residents, on one fateful Wednesday and spent 29 days in captivity.
The Bandits who invaded Tsiga town in the Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State on the fateful day, after abducting a retired Army General, had contacted the family and demanded a ransom of N250m.
A source close to the family revealed that negotiations were still ongoing with the view to secure the release of the retired Army General unharm.
“It is very pathetic that the general and all other captives are still held by their abductors in this holy month of Ramadan.
“I can assure you that negotiations are going on, and our prayers are with him and all other victims who are in captivity,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the police command in Katsina State said efforts were ongoing to rescue the abducted students of Federal University, Dutsin-Ma.
DSP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, spokesperson for the police command in Katsina State, said the police, in synergy with other security agencies, were working to rescue the students and arrest the culprits.
On his part, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Armaya’u Hamisu Bichi, said there were efforts to rescue them, although the attackers were yet to make contact for negotiation about the release of the students.
Professor Bichi said the students who were kidnapped were living in an area marked unsafe by the school authorities.
“There are areas that we consider to be the routes of the terrorists, and we have been warning our students against renting a place in such areas.
“We have never had any incidents, either on our campus or in areas we can provide security to, but some of our students, who did not heed our advice and warnings, rented places in such unsafe areas,” he said.
In the early hours of Sunday, gunmen suspected to be bandits abducted four students of the Federal University Dutsinma to an unknown destination.
