Bandits vow to kill Greenfield students if N100m ransom isn’t paid

The bandits who kidnapped 22 students of Greenfield University in Kaduna have vowed to kill the remaining students in their custody by Tuesday 4^th of May, 2021 if their demand of N100m is not met.

The 22 students including a staff member were abducted from the privately-owned university located along the Kaduna-Abuja highway in Chikun LGA on the 20^th of April.

Leader of the gang, Sani Jalingo who issued the threat on Monday while speaking with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, threatened that the remaining students will be killed if the Kaduna State Government or the students’ family fail to pay the money demanded by Tuesday.

He also demanded for ten motorcycles.

Jalingo insisted that if the money (N100m) and the items (motorcycles) demanded were not provided on Tuesday, trucks would be used to evacuate the lifeless bodies of the remaining students.

He confirmed that 17 of the abducted students, including 15 females and two males are in their custody – after five of the students were killed.

Jalingo also confirmed that the families of the remaining students had so far paid N55 million to them.

The Greenfield University kidnapping is Nigeria’s fourth kidnapping from an academic institution in 2021, and the fifth since December 2020, coming five weeks and six days after the Afaka kidnapping, in which 39 students were abducted.

Following the kidnap of the students and a staff of the school, the bandits had made contact with the parents and demanded N800 million ransom for the release of the students.