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Three ABU Law Students Kidnapped On Abuja-kaduna Road [Photo] - Edoman - 08-28-2019
Three students of the faculty of law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria have been kidnapped on Abuja-Kaduna expressway.
The students are said to be in their final year at the university.
Abuja-Kaduna road is notorious for being a flash-point of kidnappings. In April, Mahmood Abubakar, chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and his daughter were kidnapped on the road.
The latest incident is coming a few weeks after 510 police officers were deployed in the area.
https://all-gists.blogspot.com/2019/08/three-abu-law-students-kidnapped-on-abuja-kaduna-road-photo.html
RE: Three ABU Law Students Kidnapped On Abuja-kaduna Road [Photo] - Edoman - 08-29-2019
Kidnapped 3 ABU Final Year Law Students Rescued By Police
Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command have rescued three students of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria abducted on Tuesday along Abuja-Kaduna highway.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Sabo, said: “The attention of the Kaduna State Police Command has been drawn to a story that was published on some print and social media captioned ‘Bandits killed three and kidnapped dozens on Kaduna-Abuja Road.’
“However, due to the prompt response of the police and other security agents to the scene, three people were later released by the hoodlums due to intensive combing within the general area. The rescued persons alongside the abandoned vehicles were moved to police station.
The Command’s Public Relations Officers, DSP Yakubu Sabo, stated that the students have united with their families.
https://all-gists.blogspot.com/2019/08/police-rescue-abducted-final-year-law-students.html
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RE: Three ABU Law Students Kidnapped On Abuja-kaduna Road [Photo] - Edoman - 08-29-2019
3 ABU students: Police lied, they weren't rescued.....we paid ransom in full
A relative of one of the Ahmadu Bello University students kidnapped on Abuja-Kaduna road on Tuesday has reacted to the claim by the police that the captives were rescued.
On Wednesday, the Kaduna police command said the three students were released by their abductors after much pressure but did not say a ransom was paid.
“The Command wishes to state that, on the said date, August 26, at about 18:50hrs, armed men in military uniform intercepted some commuters near Masari village along Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, opened fire on the vehicles, in the process kidnapped six persons,” a statement issued by Yakubu Sabo, the command’s public relations officer, read.
“Due to the prompt response of the Police and other security agents to the scene, three people were later released by the hoodlums due to intensive combing within the general area.”
Bashir Ahmad, personal assistant to the president on new media, shared a report quoting the police claim, this elicited a reaction from Sadiq Ango, a Twitter user, who said the police lied and that it took the families 48 hours of negotiations and payment of ransom before the students were released.
https://www.thecable.ng/police-lied-we-paid-ransom-on-three-abu-students
RE: Three ABU Law Students Kidnapped On Abuja-kaduna Road [Photo] - Edoman - 08-29-2019
President Buhari's aide apologizes on misleading information of police rescuing kidnapped ABU students
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President Buhari's aide on New Media, Bashir Ahmad has apologized after retweeting a misleading information of the police rescuing the three kidnapped Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) students.
Recall LIB reported that a relative of one of the students abducted by gunmen along Abuja-Kaduna road on Tuesday August 27, accused the Nigerian police of lying after it took credit for the release of the final year Law students.
Following the backlash that ensued and a subsequent verification of the claim of payment of ransom for the kidnapped final year Law students' freedom, Bashir Ahmad was forced to delete his tweet and also issue an apology to Nigerians and the family of the ABU students.
Quote:“I have taken down this tweet. Relatives and one of the victims confirmed that there’s no police involvement in the process that led to their release. Got the info first from NAN, minutes later some newspapers carried it, too bad. Police was trying to take credit. I apologize for sharing it" he tweeted.
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