Two students of the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State, who were abducted ten days ago have been freed after paying some ransom to their captors.
According to the institution’s Head of the Information and Protocol Unit, Ashu Agbu, who confirmed their release to Channel’s TV on Friday, April 12, the students were freed after paying N700,000 ransom.
Agbu said the students were freed Thursday night near Chinkai village in Wukari Local Government Area of the state.
She said the students, Joshua Sardauna from the Economics Department and Obianu Elizabeth from the Microbiology Department, had come to the institution to write carryover papers when they were abducted.
She promised that the school would allow them to retake the papers even though the examinations had been concluded.
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The victims were abducted from a nearby shop near the school on Wednesday, April 3, at about 10:00 p.m., after which their captors placed N50 million ransom on them.
The university’s chief security officer (CSO), Sule Gani, confirmed the abduction to the media in Jalingo, the state capital.
Gani claimed that the gunmen, whom he claimed to be armed Fulani herdsmen, kidnapped a male and a female former university student who had come to write their carryover papers.
Before this incident, over 1,000 schoolchildren have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the Chibok school abduction in April 2014./PLEASE SHARE
