{"id":1988,"date":"2021-02-28T07:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2021-02-28T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:27:31","slug":"niger-gov-we-did-not-pay-ransom-to-secure-the-release-of-kagara-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/02\/28\/niger-gov-we-did-not-pay-ransom-to-secure-the-release-of-kagara-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Gov: We did not pay ransom to secure the release of Kagara students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello on Saturday stated that no ransom was paid to secure the release of the Kagara schoolboys and their teachers from their abductors.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that armed men dressed in military uniform suspected to be bandits invaded the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/02\/25\/kagara-abduction-kidnappers-threaten-to-starve-schoolboys-to-death\/\">Government Science College Kagara<\/a><\/strong> on February 17 and abducted 27 students, three teachers and 12 members of their family. All were released on Saturday February 27.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1989 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/adewale-chocomilo\/2021\/02\/28\/603aaeca80397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/adewale-chocomilo\/2021\/02\/28\/603aaeca80397.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/adewale-chocomilo\/2021\/02\/28\/603aaeca80397-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The governor, Bello while addressing newsmen after receiving the students in his office said;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cThere was no ransom. We, however, incurred a lot of logistics because we had to involve so many groups even the logistics to bring them, and to settle the stakeholders. 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