Plans To Secure Release Of Afaka Students Suffer Setback

One of the parents of the abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state, has reportedly scuttled the effort to secure the release of the remaining 29 abductees.

Recall that the parent had said during a protest at the National Assembly on Tuesday that popular Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi linked them to a suspected negotiator for the bandits who was paid N800,000 for transport.

According to TheCable, her comment has angered Gumi and others who had been working to facilitate the release of the students.

A source told the news platform that her comment has now created problems for the negotiation process between Gumi and the bandits.

He said that the woman was never part of the meeting with Gumi, adding that the comments were made out of ignorance.

“That woman made that unfortunate comments out of ignorance. It is just side talks. She was not at the meeting with Shiekh Gumi so she didn’t know what happened at the meeting. She just heard what some people are talking at the corner,” the source said.

“This unfortunate comment has brought about serious setback in the efforts being made to ensure the release of our children. She is not supposed to talk on what she doesn’t know.

“Now the man who has been helping us to get the children out has stopped picking our calls because of that reckless statement.

“We were just at the verge of getting the children today, but now the process is suffering setback because of the statement by this woman.

“Right now those who we were talking to them to help us have refused to pick our calls. Since in the morning, we have been calling that man but he is not picking our calls because of that reckless statement.