AUTHORITIES CONFIRMS THE RELEASE OF ONE ABDUCTEE.
NEGOTIATION WITH THE GUNMEN COMMENCES.
Some suspected gunmen invaded one of the out of school campuses of Zamfara State College of Health Sciences, Tsafe and abducted five female students.
The bandits according to the sources were armed with deadly weapons, and they have forced their ways into the female private hostels at night and pick up the abductees.
But authorities have confirmed that one of the abductees name withheld have been unconditionally released this morning.
It was also confirmed that the management of the college and indeed other stakeholders ha e opened communication with the bandits and negotiation has since started.
They said they have their children in the college, so they want to avoid being heartless to the abductees especially considering that we are in the holy month of Ramadan and therefore requested for money as condition for the release of the abductees.
Some unverified information revealed that two weeks to the commencement of the Ramada some female students of Habibu Aliyu Yandoto College of Advanced Studies Tsafe Gummi Study Center who are studying Physical and Health Education escaped being abducted by gunmen when they went to Tsafe for their examination.
It was expected that the authorities take the most appropriate steps of shutting down the college until the security arrangements are improved.
This medium authoritatively gathered that soldiers are now around the premises of the college to beef up security.