From Victor Osula, Abuja
Governor Nasri el-Rufai of Kaduna State
One of the new set of 15 of the remaining 80 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna state who was released on Sunday has said she does not lacks the mental health to immediately sit for the ongoing National Examination Council Examination, NECO.
The student, Favour Silas, has said she would miss the ongoing National Examination Council (NECO) Examination because what she went through under captivity was too fresh in her mind to make her fit for the examination.
According to her; “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 rest of the remaining 63 students under the care of the bandits will equally be freed.”
The bandits had invaded the school and abducted 121 students, on July 5, 2021.
