Pay N12m before they marry us off next week, Zamfara Kidnap victims plead in new video
No fewer than four female victims including a student of the Zamfara State College of Arts and Science, abducted by bandits, have raised an alarm over their captors’ threat to marry them off if their parents fail to pay a N12 million ransom.
The abductees, nabbed along the Birnin Magaji-Kaura Namoda Road six months ago while returning from a wedding, revealed this in a two-minute 19 seconds video on Saturday.
The victims, identified as Ummukhair, Aisha Yahaya, Jamila Yahaya, and Ummu Sani also said that their abductors gave their families one week to pay the ransom.
“We are begging you, parents, in the name of God. We are in trouble here with our abductors. Please, look for money to secure our freedom,” they pleaded.
“The past government of Governor Bello Matawalle failed to secure our release. This is our sixth month and some days in captivity. We are begging the Governor Dauda Lawal-led administration to do something.”
An elder brother to one of the victims, Aminu Yahaya, informed that six of the girls were kidnapped while two of them were released after the payment of a N6 million ransom.
“I was the one that took the other ransom of N6m to them before they released two girls,” he added.
“Now they are giving us a one-week ultimatum to pay N12 million or else they will marry off our sisters.”
They appealed to the state government and citizens to come to their aid.
In a two minutes 19 seconds video clip released by the bandits on Sunday, the abducted females were crying, calling for help from both the Zamfara state Governor Dauda Lawal and the general public to come to their rescue before they were forcefully married by the wicked bandits.
The girls who were all wearing hijabs looked seriously emaciated and were crying on top of their voices, calling for an urgent help for the settlement of the N12 million before the deadline as they did not want to remain with the marauding bandits as their wives.
They repeatedly appealed to Governor Dauda Lawal to do something urgent to get them released and return to their families.
