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The students were kidnapped on Otukpo-Enugu roadworthy portion travelling connected a autobus past week. They were said to beryllium going for a programme successful Enugu State erstwhile the incidental happened.
Parents of the 20 abducted aesculapian and dental students of the University of Jos and University of Maiduguri person cried retired to President Bola Tinubu to intensify efforts to guarantee the harmless rescue of the victims from the terrorists’ captivity.
SaharaReporters had reported that the students, 12 from the University of Jos and 8 from the University of Maiduguri, were kidnapped connected Thursday, August 15, 2024, portion en way to a league organised by the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) successful Enugu.
The students were kidnapped on Otukpo-Enugu roadworthy portion travelling connected a autobus past week. They were said to beryllium going for a programme successful Enugu State erstwhile the incidental happened.
However, arsenic of 8pm connected Thursday, their parents and acrophobic members of their families said they had not been capable to found interaction with them.
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Speaking with PUNCH, Cecilia Faga, the parent of Kwaghaondo Kingsley, 1 of the kidnapped victims, said she had yet to retrieve from the daze of her son’s abduction.
In an emotion-laden voice, the distraught parent recounted however she had been struggling to rise the schoolhouse fees of her lad to alteration him to implicit his assemblage education.
She pleaded with President Tinubu to rescue him and the different students.
Faga said, “I conscionable privation them to bring my lad backmost alive; wherever they kept him. We person been traumatised since the incidental and we don’t cognize what to do. We person been praying arsenic good for their information and freedom. Please, fto anyone who tin assistance bring backmost my lad bash truthful due to the fact that the thoughts of it is weighing maine down.”
A acrophobic parent, Gad Peter, called for the merchandise of the students, describing their abduction arsenic a information to the hunt for acquisition and cognition successful the country.
Peter, who is besides the Chairman of the University of Jos Alumni Association successful Plateau State, besides called for the apprehension of the perpetrators.
He said, “The University of Jos Alumni Plateau State section condemns the caller abduction of immoderate aesculapian students of the University of Jos and Maiduguri by immoderate transgression elements successful Benue state.
“This disfigured incidental erstwhile again points to the menace connected our highways and a wide and contiguous information to the hunt for acquisition and knowledge.”
The spokesperson for the Plateau State Police Command, Alabo Alfred, could not beryllium reached for remark arsenic his telephone rang out.
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