August 23, (THEWILL) – One of the freed Bethel Baptist School students, Favour Silas, has said she would miss the ongoing National Examination Council (NECO) Examination.
“I am not sure whether I will have the mental strength to write the exam as a result of what I passed through. Sometimes, they left us without food for four days; we survived by wandering the bush looking for anything eatable,” she said; adding that the bandits asked them to sleep on cow faeces.
Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna after she regained freedom, the Senior Secondary School (SSS3) student narrated how the bandits beat them whenever they violated any rule assigned to them.
“I never thought I would come out of that jungle alive; I thought we were going to perish,” she said.
Earlier, the President of the Baptist Church, Reverend Israel Akanji, while handing over the 15 freed students to their parents, thanked them for their patience and understanding during the trial.
He said though they were expecting to see all the remaining students freed, the 15 released was still a welcome development.
Reverend Akanji said: “We are optimistic that in the coming days, the remaining 63 students under the care of the bandits will equally be freed.”
THEWILL had reported on Sunday that bandits released another set of 15 of 80 remaining abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna.
The bandits had invaded the school and abducted 121 students, on July 5, 2021.
