After 707 Days In Captivity, Bandits Free Last Batch Of Abducted FGC, Yauri Girls

After 707 days, the two remaining kidnapped students of the Federal Government College, BirninYauri, have regained freedom from their abductors, early morning of yesterday.
It was gathered that the two remaining female students, Faida Sani Kaoje and SafiyaIdris, were released after intensive negotiations by a special committee set up by their families and well-wishers, with the leadership of the bandits.
A notorious bandit kingpin, Dogo Gide, had insisted that some conditions must be met by the Kebbi State Government, before the remaining girls could be released.
It would be recalled that on April 22, 2023, four Yauri female students with two babies were released after payment of a huge ransom to Dogo Gide.
Weeks later, precisely on May 7, three other girls, Elizabeth OgechiNwafor, Esther Sunday and Aliya Abubakar, were also freed by their captors.
The releases were effected after a huge ransom was generated by parents and other stakeholders when the Kebbi Sate Government was reluctant to meet the bandits’ demands.
The parents had to beg Nigerians to come to their aid financially in order to rescue their children from their abductors.
In a letter addressed to all Nigerians in January, 2023, the group known as “Committee of Parents of 11 Abducted Students of F.G.C Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, Nigeria,” passionately solicited financial assistance towards raising the sum of N100million as ransom to be paid to the terrorists, in exchange for their wards.
In their letter, the Chairman and Secretary of the ‘Committee of Parents, SalimKa’oje and Mr. Daniel Alkali, respectively, said their female children (aged between 12-16 years) had been in the custody of their abductors for about 20 months now.
“…And the abductors are demanding the sum of N100million before they release the girls,” they added.
It would be recalled that the 11 students were kidnapped when the bandits invaded their school on June 17, 2021.
Last November, some of the girls had become teenage mothers, while about four others were pregnant.
It cannot be independently confirm if the ransom paid by the parents was up to the N100million demanded by the bandits.