{"id":68407,"date":"2024-01-22T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68407"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:34:19","slug":"police-lied-they-couldnt-have-rescued-people-released-after-payment-of-ransom-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68407","title":{"rendered":"They lied! They couldn’t have rescued people released after payment of ransom – Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nabeeha\u2019s sisters\u2019 freedom: police, family disagree<\/span><\/h2>\n

The details of the kidnapped victims of the Al-Kadriyar family continue to emerge following the release of the five abducted girls by their captors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily Trust<\/i><\/span>\u00a0reports that the girls were abducted on January 2 along with the second-born of the family, Nabeeha, as well as their father, Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar, from their home located at Zuma 1 area, at the outskirts of Bwari town, in the FCT.<\/span><\/p>\n

An uncle to the children was shot dead by the bandits, as he was leading a police rescue team to the house around 9 p.m of the faithful day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The father was released three days later and ordered to provide N60 million ransom before or on Friday 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, unable to meet the demand, the bandits killed Nabeeha, a 400-level student of Biological Science, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, around 9 p.m on the dateline, and jacked up the ransom to N100 million, which must be paid before last Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The five victims released are Najeeba, a 500-level Quantity Surveying student, her younger sister Nadherah, 300-level Zoology student, both of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria and their twin sisters, Habeeba, Haneesa.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fifth person is Mardeeyah Isah Salahuddeen, a 400-level student of Microbiology, Bayero University Kano (BUK). She is maternal cousin to the children that joined the family, during school holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the FCT police command in a statement issued on Sunday, through the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, had said the effort of the Command\u2019s anti-kidnapping squad led to the rescue of the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the relentless advancement of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command Anti-Kidnapping squad in a concerted effort with troops of the Nigerian Army, on the heels of the kidnappers that struck the Zuma 1 area in the Bwari Area Council on the 2nd of January 2024, The FCT Police\u00a0 has rescued the victims and reunited them with their families.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe operatives successfully rescued the victims around Kajuru forest in Kaduna state\u00a0 at about 11:30 pm on\u00a0 Saturday 20th January 2024,\u201d the statement reads in part.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the family countered the claim saying that the girls were released after ransom was paid, and not rescued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking about the release of the five sisters, an uncle to the victims, Jamiu Salman, told Daily Trust that they received a call from one of the victims around 8 p.m on Saturday that they were released by their captors and gave the details of the location.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn getting the information, I and a younger brother to their father mobilized ourselves and left for the Jere junction, where we sighted some military men and approached them to introduce ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey provided us with escort down to a bush around Gurara Dam where they stopped. We proceeded and met the children. We arrived back home after 11pm, in the company of the military escort.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He confirmed that a ransom was paid last Wednesday, though he declined to disclose the amount.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also speaking, a cousin of the children, Mubarak Alkadriyar, who was in the journey to bring back the children, said the bandits had earlier called them and directed them about where and who to pay the ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey released 12 people altogether \u2013 comprising five from Al-Kadriyar\u2019s family, and seven other people from three different families abducted from Dutse axis in the FCT. We jointly made the payment last Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a collective payment with the other family members. They told every family what to pay, and one person agreed to collect all the money on behalf of the others and given directives on how to bring the money,\u201d Mubarak said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mubarak Al-Kadriyar also faulted a claim that the victims were rescued by security men, insisting that they were released by their captors after ransom was paid.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey have done their best actually, but as I earlier said what they did was not enough. The security agencies have failed to prioritize the lives of the citizens which is their duty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause even after the ransom was paid, should they come in to say they want to rescue them?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe bandits shouldn\u2019t have stayed conveniently from Wednesday down to Saturday night and at their convenience to release them to us, and they left thereafter without anybody confronting them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cf Report by Daily Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nabeeha\u2019s sisters\u2019 freedom: police, family disagree The details of the kidnapped victims of the Al-Kadriyar family continue to emerge following the release of the five abducted girls by their captors. Daily Trust\u00a0reports that the girls were abducted on January 2 along with the second-born of the family, Nabeeha, as well as their father, Alhaji Mansoor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":68408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[3672,234,982],"class_list":["post-68407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-lie","tag-police","tag-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}