{"id":16934,"date":"2024-03-14T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/gunmen-who-kidnapped-287-school-children-in-nigeria-say-they-will-kill-them-all-if-622000-ransom-not-paid\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T00:46:22","slug":"gunmen-who-kidnapped-287-school-children-in-nigeria-say-they-will-kill-them-all-if-622000-ransom-not-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/gunmen-who-kidnapped-287-school-children-in-nigeria-say-they-will-kill-them-all-if-622000-ransom-not-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen who kidnapped 287 school children in Nigeria say they will kill them all if $622,000 ransom not paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThey called me from a hidden number yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon at around 16 minutes past 12, and demanded 1 billion naira ($621,848) as a ransom for the students. They said [the ultimatum] will only last for three weeks or 20 days from the date they kidnapped the children and if there\u2019s no action from the government, they will kill all of them,\u201d said Aminu Jibril, a resident of Kuriga village, in Kaduna state, where the school is located.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The children were kidnapped on March 7.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The member of the Kuriga community said he believed the kidnappers got his number from the head of the school\u2019s junior secondary section, who was kidnapped alongside the students.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Some of the students were rescued but 287 of them remain with the kidnappers. About 100 of them are from the primary school and the rest from the secondary school.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Kaduna Governor Uba Sani said in a statement Thursday that his government was \u201cdoing everything possible to ensure the safe return of the pupils and students.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Sani also said a member of the community who confronted the abductors during the attack was killed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Kaduna state, which borders the Nigerian capital Abuja to the southwest, has grappled with recurring incidents of kidnappings for ransom by bandits and has witnessed several mass abductions in recent years, including in the district where the LEA Primary and Secondary School is located.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In 2021, at least 140 students were kidnapped by armed men from a private secondary school.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The incident came just months after around 20 students from a private university in Chikun\u2019s Kasarami village were abducted by gunmen.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey called me from a hidden number yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon at around 16 minutes past 12, and demanded 1 billion naira ($621,848) as a ransom for the students. 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