The 85 people kidnapped by bandits in Wanzamai village, Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State are still in captivity.
Na’Allah told our correspondent that the community had been able to raise the N1.7m earlier demanded by the bandits and were about to go to bandits camp and make the payment when they got the latest information of additional amount of N850, 000.
“We wanted to meet the deadline given to us by the bandits and pay the sum of N1.7m as they earlier demanded but with this sad development, we have to look for other ways to get the additional N850,000,” he said. Meanwhile, the state government said it would not withdraw the military personnel from Wanzamai village as demanded by the bandits as one of the conditions for them to release the kidnapped victims.that, “We will not be intimidated and no pressure from the bandits will make us change our security arrangements.”All rights reserved.
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