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N344m ransom: FG wasn’t part of negotiations Presidency
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it was not part of any negotiations or payment of any ransom for the release of the abducted 344 students of Kankara school in Katsina State, despite Wall Street Journal report that the schoolboys said the kidnappers demanded N344million (N1 million per head) before they were released.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in his reaction to the Wall Street Journal report, said it was false to say that the Federal Government paid ransom for the release of the students.
Revealed: Kankara schoolboys say kidnappers demanded N344m for their release – Report
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The 334 released Kankara schoolboys has again made a shocking revelation that the gunmen who kidnapped them demanded 344 million Naira, (One million per hand), before they could be released, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.
The schoolboys according to WSJ said that 30 million naira was paid initially but their abductors threatened to release only 30 of them if N344m is not paid.
“Three boys said their kidnappers told them they were initially paid 30 million naira, equivalent to around $76,000, but decided not to release the boys because they had demanded 344 million naira 1 per head.
Our kidnappers demanded N344m, N1m per head, say Katsina schoolboys Our kidnappers demanded N344m, N1m per head, say Katsina schoolboys
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Abducted schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State have said that their kidnappers demanded a total of N344million naira – N1million per head – before they were released, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.
It would be recalled that all the 344 schoolboys were released on Thursday, December 17, 2020, by the bandits who had kidnapped them on Friday, December 11, 2020.
Controversy has, however, trailed the claim that ransom was not paid by the Nigerian authorities to secure the release of the schoolboys.
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