Family seeks governments’ assistance over abducted nursing mother, two sisters
Says bandits demand N50 million ransom
After giving birth in terrorists’ captivity, the family of an abducted woman has cried out to the Federal and Kaduna State governments for assistance, as bandits are demanding a N50 million ransom to release the nursing mother and her two sisters.
The three sisters were kidnapped at their family home where they were attending to their sick mother, on July 17, 2022, in Mando, on the outskirts of Kaduna.
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Their mother has now been confined to a wheelchair due to the trauma occasioned by her children’s abduction.
The eldest of the sisters, who was pregnant when they were kidnapped, gave birth in captivity without recourse to medical or human care for both mother and child.
Recounting the family’s ordeal, the father of the nursing mother and her sisters, Malam AbdulWahab Yusuf said the bandits broke into their Mando home at about 1:05 a.m. on a fateful day.
He said: “My two daughters used to take care of their mother who is sick. That day their elder sister, who is pregnant, came from her husband’s house to look after her mother. The bandits broke into the house, I ran out and jumped the back fence, but my three daughters were kidnapped and taken to the forest.
“They asked for N140 million, but now they have reduced it to N50 million. The family has been adversely affected by the trauma. My wife, who was able to walk unaided before the incident now uses a wheelchair. We just carried out surgery on her. I have not been myself, I cannot sleep. Once it is the night I don’t know how my body feels.”
Also, the elder brother of the kidnapped sisters, Kabiru Yusuf said, “since the kidnap, we have been negotiating with them. The bandits initially demanded N140 million, but we pleaded with them that we are poor people. So, they reduced it to N100.”
We pleaded with them further and they reduced it to N50 million last week Saturday and threatened that if we don’t have the N50 million ready, we should not call them again.
“My sisters lamented to me on Sunday that they were being maltreated, adding that the bandit’s commander wanted to leave the camp and may not return until after a while, so we should talk to them. But I told them that we have sold everything we have but what we raised is not tangible and we don’t have anything to sell again/ they started crying and I broke down weeping too.
“We are appealing to the Federal Government, Kaduna state government charity organisations, philanthropists and well spirited individuals to assist us in securing their release. We don’t want anything to happen to them, if anything happens to them only God knows what effect it would have on our mother, who is now in a wheelchair because of their abduction.”
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