Famous Islamic scholar, Sheihk Ahmad Gumi has been exposed by parents of the 29 kidnapped students of the College of Forestry Mechanisation Afaka, Kaduna State.

One of the parents said; “We have been trying to secure the release of the abducted students to no avail.”

“We the parents have attended several meetings and were taken to Ahmad Gumi, prominent Islamic cleric, who directed us to a Fulani man named Ahmed.”

“We kept going for meetings. They took us to Gumi’s house who said we should meet one Ahmed. I’ve forgotten the name.”

“A Fulani man was invited, we contributed almost N800,000 to him but he said the money was just for transportation.”

“Then I started crying and pleaded with him that I am a widow, training my boy to become my helper in the future but he said that was not his concern.”

“The unidentified Fulani man was invited to an office in Kaduna to meet the parents.”

“We kept begging him but he insisted that we must pay N500 million.”

“The trauma is too much, I can hardly sleep. We are walking corpses. People see us as being alive but we are already dead.”

“In the night, one cannot sleep, if you want to sleep you will be thinking about the condition of your child; if the child is dead, alive, eaten.”

“The kidnappers are after the government paying that money – N500 million. Like me in particular, they kept calling me ‘Madam, go and talk to the government to pay the money’. All I kept telling them was that I am a widow, I don’t have access to the government.”

“Maybe if my husband was to be alive, he would know somebody who would help him to talk to the government. They kept calling me for almost two weeks and I told them the same thing.”

“The bandits have started calling us individually to negotiate for our children’s release.”

In March these bandits attacked the college located in Igabi LGA and abducted the students, but 172 of them were rescued, leaving 39 in captivity. Out of the 39 in captivity, 10 have regained their freedom.