{"id":126023,"date":"2024-03-24T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2024\/03\/24\/kuriga-kidnap-more-than-280-nigerian-pupils-released\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:01:13","slug":"kuriga-kidnap-more-than-280-nigerian-pupils-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2024\/03\/24\/kuriga-kidnap-more-than-280-nigerian-pupils-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuriga kidnap: More than 280 Nigerian pupils released"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 280 Nigerian pupils abducted in the north-western town of Kuriga earlier this month have been released “unharmed”, officials say. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kaduna state governor Uba Sani did not give details of the release, days before a deadline for ransom demanded by the abductors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The children, aged eight to 15, and one teacher, were abducted on 7 March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kidnap gangs, known as bandits, have seized thousands of people in recent years, especially in the north-west.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, there had been a reduction in the mass abduction of children over the past year until this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Those kidnapped are usually freed after a ransom is paid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    This time, militants had demanded $690,000 (\u00a3548,000). The government had said it would not pay any ransom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    In his statement, governor Sani praised Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu “for ensuring that the abducted Kuriga schoolchildren are released unharmed”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    “The Nigerian Army also deserves special commendation for showing that with courage, determination and commitment, criminal elements can be degraded and security restored in our communities,” Mr Sani said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The mass abduction occurred on the morning of 7 March during school assembly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    According to witnesses, the pupils were in the assembly ground around 08:30 (07:30 GMT) when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles rode through the school, eventually taking away 187 students from a secondary school and 125 from the local primary school. Twenty-five later returned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    One pupil, believed to be 14-years-old, died after being shot by the gunmen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Most of the kidnaps in north-west Nigeria, including Kaduna state, are believed to be the work of criminal gangs trying to make money from ransoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    In an attempt to curb Nigeria’s spiralling and lucrative kidnapping industry, a controversial law that made it a crime to make ransom payments was passed in 2022. It carries a jail sentence of at least 15 years, however no-one has ever been arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Earlier this year, the family of a group of sisters kidnapped in the capital, Abuja, denied a police statement that the security forces had rescued the girls, saying that they had no choice but to pay the ransom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    There was global outrage when Islamists seized nearly 300 girls in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Most of the victims have either been freed or escaped since then, but dozens remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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