Nigeria: Whatβs it like when your child is kidnapped?
βA bandit ran after my daughter, she beat him with her elbow, but another bandit grabbed her hijab and took her to his motorbike.β Dahiru Abdulahi, father of abducted student.
This month there have been six mass abductions in the north of Nigeria, many involving children.
One school that was attacked by armed men was in the town of Kuriga in the North West. There, the parents of 137 children had to wait, helpless, for the next 16 days, not knowing where their children were, or how they were being treated by the kidnappers.
The Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, took a tough line, saying there would be no ransom paid.
But then, on Sunday, there was relief after it was announced they'd been released. Itβs not clear how this happened, but all the children are believed to have survived. There was one fatality, a teacher called Abubakar Issa, who had been kidnapped with the children.
For today's Africa Daily, Mpho Lakaje speaks to Dahiru Abdulahi, the parent of one of the students who was taken.
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