Gunmen identified as “bandits” by Nigerian officials kidnapped over 100 people from four northeastern villages on Sunday, possibly for ransom or use as human shields against Nigerian military operations.
In this photo released by the Nigeria State House, Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari, centre, meets with Chibok school girls recently freed from Nigeria Extremist captivity in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, May 7, 2017.
Several other mass kidnappings have reportedly been settled with big ransom payments from the embarrassed Nigerian government. Following a great deal of international controversy about the clear incentives for abduction created by these payments, the Nigerian Senate passed a bill in April 2022 imposing a 15-year jail sentence for paying ransom, and life imprisonment or execution for kidnapping.
“If I have what to do to get my children out and I refuse to do because somebody is threatening arrest, it is better I do it, let my children come out and be under the roof of their father, let the government arrest me, then we’ll meet in court,” the father of one kidnapping victim
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