BREAKING: Bandits kidnap 15 ABU students along Abuja-Kaduna road, demand N450m ransom

Kidnappers of 15 students of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, who were abducted along Kaduna-Abuja expressway are demanding for N450 million as ransom, WazobiaReporters can report.

The abductors are demanding N30 million each of the students.

According to a report by Abusites, the university’s local newspaper, the 300L students of the Department of French were travelling to Lagos for their language immersion program at the Nigerian French Language Village, NFLV, when they were kidnapped by bandits.

News of the kidnapping was made known by Precious Owunna, a student of the Nigerian French Language Village, who took to her twitter to draw attention of Nigerians to the situation.

Precious tweeted, “Hi guys I don’t know how else to say this, we need you prayers please my friends, my course mate were kidnapped @ Kaduna Abuja road.”

50 minutes ago, Precious tweeted;
“You guys please pray for my friends. They are some of the students kidnapped and the kidnappers are asking for 30million naira for each person.”

Another twitter user, Julu (@Disparue_) had tweeted at 9:40pm on yesterday that;
“About 12/15 300 level ABU Zaria students were kidnapped this afternoon. They were all travelling from kaduna to Lagos. One of them was with a baby so the kidnappers left her behind and she has been contacting people for help.”

Precious, a UNN student running her program in Badagry, also said that a student was shot while attempting to escape and a woman was left behind because she had a baby.

Abusites gathered that victims of the Sunday’s kidnapping include: Okafor Grace, Kyenpia Bulus, Dickson Afolabi, Jemimah Badmus, Aliyu. S. Adamu, Simnom Praise, Ziya Asoji, Elizabeth John, Victor Agbo and Precious Mutum.

This is the second time the city of Zaria has been hit by this sort of attack in the space of three days.

On Saturday, two children and a lecturer of Electrical and Electronics at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria were abducted.

You guys please pray for my friends
They are some of the students kidnapped
And the kidnappers are asking for 30million naira for each person pic.twitter.com/NnlrH67Ycv

— Preshy❣️❣️ (@PreciousOwunna) November 16, 2020

About 12/15 300 level ABU Zaria students were kidnapped this afternoon. They were all travelling from kaduna to Lagos. One of them was with a baby so the kidnappers left her behind and she has been contacting people for help,#FreeAbuZariaStudents

— Julu (@Disparue_) November 15, 2020