“The bandits released a student two weeks ago on health grounds. Kaduna may not be the commercial nerve centre of the Northern region but being the defunct capital of Northern Nigeria before the creation of states by the Gowon military regime in 1967, the. “They escaped from the bandits when they were sent to collect firewood for cooking. The other three made it to the school on their own,” he said. “Five children escaped on July 21 but only two were found by the police. Hayab said 34 children were now free, while 87 were still being held. Kaduna State police were not immediately available for comment when contacted by AFP. Again, bandits have abducted a second class Emir of Kajuru, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu and 14 others in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State. Monday's kidnapping was the second in as many days, after police said.

“The bandits released them yesterday (Saturday) and we were able to send out church buses to go to where the captors dropped them to pick them up,” he said. 'This government has failed the people of Kaduna,' Mustapha Kumbe, the father of one of the abducted students, told reporters. Joseph Hayab, one of the senior officials at Bethel Baptist High School, told AFP news agency on Sunday that 28 students had been released and were reunited with their parents. The kidnapping was the latest by heavily-armed gangs, known locally as bandits, who have long plagued northwest and central Nigeria by looting, stealing cattle and abducting for ransom, but have lately targeted schools and colleges. The attackers stormed Bethel Baptist High School in northwestern Kaduna State on July 5, abducting students who were sleeping in their dorms. Gunmen who seized 121 students at a high school in northwestern Nigeria in early July have released another 28 teenagers, a school official said. In further positive developments from Nigeria, 15 more students kidnapped by bandits from Bethel Baptist School over.

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