Gumi Reveals Why Abducted Greenfield Students Yet to be Released
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Celebrated bandit negotiator and Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi, has revealed why bandits are yet to release students of Greenfield University abducted about two months ago.
Gumi said the students have not been released due to the bandits link with Boko Haram. Bandits had attacked the private university based in Kaduna State on April 17 and abducted about 20 students.
While some of the students were released, the bandits had killed five.However, Gumi said Boko Haram has infiltrated the field of kidnapping.
Speaking with Channels Television, the cleric said: “The Greenfield abduction is unique because for the first time we saw a cooperation between some bandits and Boko Haram elements which confirm that Boko Haram are encroaching into the field, which is a bad situat
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Controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, says the students of Greenfield University kidnapped about two months ago have not been released because their kidnappers have links with Boko Haram.
Mr Gumi said this in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday from Kaduna.
The kidnappers had attacked the private university on April 17 and abducted 20 students, five of whom they have killed.
They have also threatened to kill the others unless a N100 million ransom is paid for their freedom.
In the interview with Channels Television, Mr Gumi said unlike previous cases of abduction in the North-west and North-central states, the kidnappers of the univrrsity students have linkage with some elements of Boko Haram in the forest.
Controversial Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi, has disclosed why bandits are yet to release students of Greenfield University abducted about two
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ON the night of April 14, 2014, some innocent girls at a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, were abducted from the school by Boko Haram insurgents.
The number of the affected girls was given as 276. They were sitting for their West African Examinations Council papers. Up until now, no fewer than 112 girls are still missing, as only some of them were able to escape or were released after negotiations with their abductors.
Not long afterwards, girls in another secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State were also kidnapped, thus opening another chapter in Nigeria’s battle with insecurity.