Kidnappers of 81 students of Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna are demanding a ransom of 81million naira for their release.
Reverend Ite Joseph Hayab who has been involved in the negotiations for the release of the students and who disclosed the ransom on Tuesday said the Kidnappers are requesting one million naira per child.
The students were abducted from their boarding school in July by bandits,the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria.
“(Bandits) are asking for one million naira on each of the 80 students remaining with them,” Reverend Ite Joseph Hayab said.
Kidnappers released 28 children last month after a first batch of 28 was released two days after the raid.
But another 81 remain in captivity.
Hayab said three students escaped before the 28 were released last month.
But they were re-kidnapped by an unidentified person in the forest who demanded a ransom.
He was paid over one million naira by parents.
