Bandits have freed a nurse with a primary healthcare centre in Kawu, Bwari Area Council, Christiana Audu, after she suffered uncontrollable menstruation period.
The victim was among the remaining 11 abductees being held hostage in Kaduna forest.
City & Crime had reported that the bandits last Thursday held down the 11 victims alongside the nurse after collecting N8.3 million and demanded for two other motorcycles before they would be released.
Confirming the release of the nurse to our reporter through telephone on Thursday, a resident of Kawu, Shuaibu Ibrahim, said the victim was released on Wednesday around 6:42pm at a forest under Kachia LGA of Kaduna State.
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He said the bandits released the victim after they discovered that she was battling with irregular menstruation in their den.
He said, “It was on Wednesday, around 11am when the bandits called the man they have been negotiating ransom with to come and pick the nurse and also asked that the family should come along with foodstuffs, cough syrup and Indian hemp, all of which were given to them.” Shuaibu further said the victim, Christiana, who is a native of Uke in Nasarawa State, upon getting home, packed all her belongings and left the community.
He said ten victims were still in captivity, after the release of the nurse, and that the bandits still stood to their ground that the other victims would not be freed until the two motorcycles they demanded are given to them.
The spokeswoman of the FCT police command, SP Adeh Josephine, is yet to reply to the text messages sent to her to confirm the release of the nurse as at the time of filing the report
