A day after the Abuja/Kaduna terrorists group released a fresh video where they threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, senators, and other government officials, they have released another set of 3 hostages.
it has been 121 days since the terrorist group abducted passengers of an Abuja-bound Kaduna train on March 28.
The families of the three released victims were silent on whether a ransom was paid or not before they were set free by the terrorists after spending 121 days in captivity.
But a security source confided in one of the correspondents of The Punch newspapers in Kaduna on Monday that the released victims’ families paid N100m each before their loved ones were freed.
“What I can tell you now is that the bandits have freed three victims of the abducted passengers. Those three released by them (bandits) include two males and a female. Each of those released paid N100m,” he said.
The group had early June, released 11 out of the 61 victims of the abducted train passengers remaining 50 hostages, and with the release of another seven in early July, 43 of the captives were still in the terrorists’ den.
Mallam Tukur Mamu, one of the negotiators and Media Consultant to controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who disclosed this, said through his singular efforts on Sunday, that the released hostages were reunited with their families late Saturday evening.
At about 11 am on Sunday, the terror group believed to be part of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province, released the three victims, which included two males and a female.
With the release of the third batch of three victims, whose identities have not been declared, 40 victims are still in the custody of the terrorists, having earlier set free 18 victims.
