Kidnapped Female Students, Begs FG, Over N50m Ransom For Freedom From Terrorists, After Spending 174 Days In Forest

The female students of Zamfara College of Art and Science abducted over 174 days ago, have pleaded with authorities to rescue them.

The students in a viral video tweeted by Makama Zagazola, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, pleaded with the Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal to rescue them and save them from being married off by their abductors.

This comes as Governor Lawal has vowed not to dialogue with terrorists.

As gathered, the students were kidnapped earlier this year and the terror group demanded a ransom of N50 million to free them.

In the video tweeted by Zagazola, one of the students, while pleading and crying at gunpoint, said they had been in captivity since the administration of former Governor Bello Matawalle, who failed to rescue them till he left office on May 29, 2023.

“For God’s sake, our mothers, we are in big trouble. We have been here since the administration of the former government,” she said tearfully. “We have spent 174 days inside the forest; that is almost six months.