Ibrahim Shamaki, father of one of the kidnapped students, Fatima, who pleaded in the viral video released by the bandits on March, 13, is dead. Shamaki was said to have died as result of trauma of his daughter’s abduction.
Following an order from one of the kidnappers that a female should speak, Fatima had in the video said in Hausa that their abductors had warned that should anyone try to rescue them none of them would go back home alive. The bandits had demanded N500m ransom.
A source who pleaded anonymity told one of our correspondents on the telephone in Kaduna on Friday that Fatima’s father died in a hospital in Maradi, Niger Republic, after he was taken there for medical attention. He said the remains of the deceased would be brought back to the country and buried today (Saturday) in accordance with Islamic rites.
On March 11, bandits in large numbers invaded the federal institution opposite Nigerian Defence Academy along Kaduna International Airport road and abducted at least 39 students of the school.
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