Four female students of the Federal Government College (FGC) Birnin Yauri in Kebbi State have been released by bandits after spending two years with their abductors.
Our correspondent gathered yesterday from a relation of one of the released girls that they were released early yesterday after payment of an undisclosed ransom to the bandits’ kingpin by the parents of the four girls.
According to him, the girls were released with each carrying two children and they have since reunited with their parents.
One of the girls revealed to her parents that they were forced to marry some bandits which necessitated them having babies.
Bandits in large number with sophisticated guns had attacked the college when students were writing examinations in May 2021 and killed some policeman at the gate before they abducting over 350 male and female students of the college to an unknown forest.
The Kebbi State government under the leadership of Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu mid last year made efforts to secure the release of over 100 of both male and female students.
Our correspondent gathered that thereafter, two students were said to have escaped from the bandits’ den and had since been reunited with their parents.
