Afaka Students: How FG released notorious kidnapper, as parents paid N32m ransom
Views: 382 Fresh detail has emerged as to how the federal government released a notorious kidnapper in exchange for the freedom of the last batch of 27 students of Federal College of Forestry, Afaka, abducted on March 11. In a prisoner swap deal brokered by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a kidnapper simply identified as Nanono was transported from a detention facility in Kano, where he was being held and handed over to a traditional ruler in Kaduna who acted as the middleman. Parents and relatives of the victims were then left with the payment of N15m, in addition to the N17m, they ear...