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The gale of kidnapping that has been going on in the country has taken a new turn as the families of the victims at a village in Katsina went after the kidnapper’s family member and abducted them.
The bandits had initially asked for a ransom of N100 million from the families, but in a new twist, family members of the victims took the law into their hands and kidnapped the bandits’ family members, reports Daily Independent.
In a video that has gone viral, one of the family members of the kidnapped victim on Instagram stated that the bandits later changed their minds after they took action.
In fact, he said that the bandits were even the ones who gave #30,000 to the victims that they had abducted.
Bandits had kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have drawn the attention of the Trump administration.
Despite some students managing to get to safety during Friday’s attack, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said 303 students and 12 teachers were abducted in the raid, updating an earlier figure of 215 students. Some are as young as ten.
Authorities announced some federal and state-run schools in northern Nigeria have temporarily closed following Friday’s abduction to forestall further attacks.
