One of the 24 pupils abducted but recently released pupils of Government School, Kagara, Zamfara State, has narrated how bandits mercilessly treated them while in the 10-day captivity.
According to the boy named Abubakar Sidi, they initially starved them but later served them beans every day.
He said “We couldn’t get any food to eat, from 1 0’ clock till night, but they later fed us; and after feeding us, they began to ask for our fathers’ occupations and beat us. Anyone who said his father was a policeman or a soldier was asked to come out and was given extra beating. They beat us based on the work our fathers do. They beat me so mercilessly so much that I was wishing to die.
“The experience was too bad; the forest was horrific. They fed us beans every day, just as they tortured us.”
According to another of the pupils, Suleiman Lawal, the suffering they experienced was terrible.
“We suffered so much. I had never faced this kind of situation in all my life. I don’t think I will like to go back to that school again,” he noted.
