Nigeria: 20 Kidnapped Students are Release in Lagos
Students Kidnapped, Aug 2024 Photo: Truth Nigeria
August 25, 2024 Hour: 5:38 pm
Twenty medical university students kidnapped on the 15th by armed men in central Nigeria have been released, police reported on Saturday.
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“Release of 20 medical students and others. We confirmed the release of our brothers and sisters and some other Nigerians, who were in captivity, on Friday 23 August 2024 in the forest of Ntunkon, state of Benue”, said Nigerian Police spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi on his X social media account.
Adejobi claimed that the release took place “without paying any ransom”, thus denying information that “some money was paid” to end the captivity of the victims.
“In fact, they were rescued tactically and professionally. We congratulate the security agencies, locals and ONSA (Office of the National Security Advisor) for their commitment and resilience,” added the spokesman, without providing further details.
On 15 August, students from the universities of Maiduguri (north-east) and Jos (centre) travelled together to the annual convention of the Federation of Catholic Students of Medicine and Dentistry (FECAMDS), in the city of Enugu, in southeastern Nigeria.
At that time, unidentified armed men ambushed and abducted them in the Otukpo area of Benue.
Some states of Nigeria, especially in the central and north-west, are under constant attack by “bandits”, a term used in the country to describe criminal gangs that commit assaults and mass kidnappings to demand large ransoms and whose members are sometimes called “terrorists”.
The attacks are repeated despite repeated promises to end the violence by the Nigerian Government, which often claims that it has reinforced the deployment of security forces.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: EFE-Africanews
