Leadership
One of the abducted pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, Niger State, Zaynab Salle Boka, has revealed that bandits starve and manhandle the pupils in their captivity on a daily basis.
The 12-year-old, who escaped from captivity and is now on admission in a private hospital, Minna, gave an insight into the deplorable mental and health state of the children who, she said, are grouped in 30 each and underfed.
Zaynab said the pupils were moved almost every other day from one point to another, and that they hardly feed well.
She further disclosed that the children are usually flogged on the back and bottom to the extent that some of them can hardly sit or lie on their back, saying that most of the pupils were in that condition when she escaped.
On how she escaped the bandits, Zaynab said when the pupils were to be moved to another location, she stayed at the back and covered herself with dry leaves.
According to her, she walked in the bush for two days before a commercial motorcycle operator (popularly called Okada man) saw her near Pandogari axis of Rafi local government area and took her to the district head of the area.
Speaking further on the pupils’ ordeal, she said there were days they walked the whole day and were fed only once, along with constant flogging.
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