Parents of abducted Zamfara female students protest
Parents of female students of Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, who were abducted by bandits, staged a peaceful protest as they accused the government of neglect. The parents, who converged on Gusau from across the federation, said the bandits holding their children in captivity had insisted that they would only negotiate with the Zamfara state Governor, Dauda Lawal, and no one else. They said they have on several occasions tried to negotiate the release of their children with the bandits but to no avail. The parents called on the government to rescue their children who had spent about 3 months in captivity, considering that they were females and vulnerable. The parents, who occupied the entrance of the Government House in Gusau, said they would not return to their respective destinations until their demands were met. “ The Governor should help rescue our children. We brought them here for university education, not for the bandits to abduct them,” Malam Baba, a pare...