Bandits Demand N150m Ransom to Release Plateau Traditional Ruler
Gunmen suspected to be bandits who abducted the traditional ruler of Panyam, in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State Da Aminu Derwan, have demanded the sum of one hundred and fifty million naira as ransom before he will be released.
A family source who pleaded for anonymity disclosed this on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 in Jos, Plateau state capital.
Recall, gunmen men who were about 20 in numbers stormed the palace at the early hours of Monday, June 20, 2022, and took Derwan, the district head of Panyam away.
It was gathered that, Derwan is the fifth monarch to be abducted within the last six months in the state.
According to the family source, they are still talking with them, hoping that they’ll reduce the ransom or release him on compassionate grounds.
The state Police Command through it’s Spokesman DSP Alfred Alabo, however, said the combined tactical team deployed to the area are still working hard to find the perpetrators of the heinous act and rescue the Monarch.
Meanwhile, Hauwa Joseph, a Chibok school girl, who was recently rescued by the Nigerian troops has explained that she escaped from the Boko Haram camp in Gazuwa during a massive incursion of the troops of the Nigerian Army into the location on June 12, 2022.
Hauwa disclosed this while narrating her ordeal to newsmen in Maiduguri, Borno State, at a news conference held at the Command and Control Centre, Maimalari Cantonment.
She said that as terrorists in the camp were running for safety while troops were advancing, she took a separate route to escape from the terrorists’ camp.
She added that “On my way, I met with some of the insurgents who asked me where I was going, but I tricked them by telling them that I was following some women to hide in the nearby forest.
“I slept under a tree with my child, then proceeded the next day until I arrived at the road where I approached a military checkpoint.
“Initially, they thought I was a suicide bomber, but when I explained my self, they took me along with them.”
Hauwa Joseph said she was forcefully married to Amir Abbah, one of the Boko Haram’s Commanders at Gazuwa camp, who was later killed during one of the encounters with the troops of the Nigerian Army.
She thanked the military for rescuing her, saying that she hoped other girls who are still in some of the terrorists’ camps would be rescued.
Recall that, Hauwa Joseph was one out of the more than 200 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State abducted in April 2014 by Boko Haram terrorists.
About 100 of the school girls are still missing seven years after the initial abduction.
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