A six-year-old girl abducted by bandits identified as Ummi in Zamfara State was on Monday released by the wife of her captor, Daily Trust gathered
The little girl and 74 others were abducted in an attack on the Yar Katsina community in the Kekun Waje district of Bungudu Local Government Area of the state early this year.
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Daily Trust had reported that the armed men after the payment of N4 million ransom had released the other victims but held on to Ummi as one of the abductors said he had decided to adopt her because he did not have any child.
However, four months later, her captor was reportedly killed in a gunfight with vigilantes. Thereafter, the slain bandit’s wife asked Ummi to find her way back home since her custodian had been killed.
“She released her and the girl spent days wandering inside the forest before she eventually navigated her way to one herder’s settlement in the forest. From there the herder took her to the district head of Magami where she was later reunited with her parents in the Yar Katsina community,” a resident Sadiq Yar Katsina told Daily Trust.
Moreso, the little girl stated that the bandit’s wife revealed that she had asked her husband to return the girl to her parents but he refused.
“Since your custodian has been killed you can now go back home. He held you against my wish. I had earlier advised him to take you back to your parents because as a woman I know what it feels like to take away a little daughter from her mother.
“I can’t personally go to your village and hand you over to your mother because I can be targeted by the vigilantes, nevertheless when you reach home greet your mother for me and tell her that I hold no grudge against her,” the bandit’s wife told the girl.
The spokesman of the State Police Command, SP Muhammad Shehu, did not respond to calls and the text message sent by our correspondent up to the time of filing this report.
