Abducted Kaduna Pupil Narrates How He Escaped From Kidnappers

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One of the kidnapped students from Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State who escaped, Mustapha Abubakar, has recounted his ordeal in the hands of his abductors.

The student was quoted to have narrated his ordeal in a report by BBC Hausa Service, published online on Monday.

Abubakar said the kidnappers treated them like a “herd of cows” grazing in the bush.

Recall that 312 pupils and teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA primary school at Kuriga, Kaduna State were abducted by bandits on March 7, 2024.

Some of them escaped leaving 100 primary school and 187 secondary school students with the kidnappers. 

According to reports the suspected bandits invaded the Kuriga area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday, shooting at their victims before taking away students and teachers from both schools.

Abubakar while recounting his experience said he escaped by craftily hiding in the bush as they were being moved into the forest on foot by the bandits.

He said: “We trekked in the bush; sometimes we crawled. We were so thirsty that some of the girls were becoming weak and falling due to fatigue. 

“The bandits were lifting them and putting some of them on motorcycles.

“We reached a big river, where we drank water and continued trekking. 

“There was a plane that hovered above us. That was when the bandits ordered us to remove one of our clothes and lie down.

“The bandits themselves are tired, they didn’t have anything to eat, but they are eating grass and rope in the forest, they didn’t give us anything to eat.

“While we were trekking, I noticed a brown shrub, like my trousers. 

“I hid inside and crawled like a snake. 

“I was there until it was completely silent before I came out and headed to the bush.”

Abubakar further disclosed that he met an old man who could hardly walk to show him the way to the side of the road or another town to get drinking water, adding that he travelled a long distance until he later arrived at Gayan, a community from where he finally escaped.

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