The kidnappers who raided Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, and abducted about 27 students and 15 staff of the school have said that the person who gave them the business (to kidnap the school students and staff) is among the security staff of the federal government.
The kidnapers who spoke in an audio massage sent to the Sheik Ahmad Gumi said that they have eyes everywhere and that whichever steps Nigeria takes they will know.
They said: “It is with the help of the people of the city that intruders can overrun the city. Don’t you know that? The person who gave us this business is there among you. He is there with you. Wherever you go, he is watching you. If you want to do this deal, go ahead. From God we come and to him we will return
“Even if you put together the entire security forces of Nigeria in Kagara, I have eyes all over Kagara. Whichever step you take in Nigeria, I swear, I will know. You people are saying they should not pay us, that if they pay us, we will use to money to buy weapons. With whose money did we buy our weapons? If we don’t have weapons, you will just send security agents to kill us and take the children.”
Troops in pursuit of abductors of Kagara school victims – Army
The kidnappers also warned that if they want peace in Kagara there will be peace but if not it is not going to be peaceful from Kagara to Ilorin.
They said: “If I want Kagara to be in peace, it will be in peace. If it is not going to be in peace, it will go in pieces from here until Ilorin. If I die in this process, I have children that I have instructed that if I die that I don’t want Kagara to be peaceful if you don’t do as I say. Even if I die, nobody will come into Kagara.”
Further they said that the abductees will die of hunger because they don’t have food to give them but only water. They said that when they die they will send the bodies to where the government can pick them.
“I don’t have food for them. If anybody dies among them, we will tell you where to go and pick the corpse.
“You know these children are hungry. I don’t have food to give them, only water if they are going to die, let them die.”
“You think I don’t know what you people are doing? I can tell you how many security vehicles are in Kagara as we speak.
“If I want Kagara to be in peace, it will be in peace. If it is not going to be in peace, it will go in pieces from here until Ilorin. If I die in this process, I have children that I have instructed that if I die that I don’t want Kagara to be peaceful if you don’t do as I say. Even if I die, nobody will come into Kagara.”
The abductors condemned the governor of Niger for saying that they should not be paid boasting that if they could get what they wanted in Zamfara. why shouldn’t they get in Niger which is a small state
“Governors are saying we should not be given money because we are going to use it to buy guns; guns that Allah provides and you are boasting about.
They went further to warn the governor to halt the activities of vigilantes in Niger of else there will not be peace forever in the state.
“In all of your (Niger State) madness, you are not up to Zamfara. It was compelled to accept our terms and talk less of small fries like you. You see, if you want to seek peace, seek peace and if you don’t stop the activities of vigilantes in Niger you will not know peace forever.”
“Your deploying security officials in Kagara is a waste of time. Is there a fence in this forest? You know we are not in the cities, we are in the forest.”
