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PublishedThe Federal Government has expressed concern about 299 students who are still being held by bandits months after their abduction.
It was gathered that the bandits promised to release the students this week after collecting the money.On July 25, when 28 of the students were released, the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev Israel Akanji, said 87 of them were still in captivity. Also, about 136 pupils, who were abducted from an Islamic school at Tegina, Niger State in May, spent 71 days in bandits’ den on Wednesday.
“The government is first of all responsible to its citizens. The fact that they are held by bandits requires more caution.”
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