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Former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami has disclosed that his friend has offered to pay N50m to rescue five sisters abducted by gunmen in Abuja.

The Nation reports there was outrage over gruesome killing of a young lady identified as Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar by the gunmen who abducted her and five other sisters.

Najeebah and her sisters were abducted on January 9, alongside their father, Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar.

She has been laid to rest according to Islamic rites on Saturday.

Nabeeha was a 400-level student of biological science, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

Others abducted include: Najeebah (500 level, Quantity Surveying), Nadheerah (300 level, Zoology)

It was gathered that the gunmen later released their father, asking him to go get N60m as ransom for the release of her daughters before Friday, January 12.

In a bid to raise money, Nigerians were urged to donate whatever they have into a bank , but not enough money was gathered as of Friday.

Consequently, the hoodlums reportedly killed the oldest of the six girls, Najeebah, and dumped her body somewhere for her parents to bury.

Pantami, confirmed the killing of Najeebah on Saturday night.

He said he had spoken with the father of Najeebah over the remaining kidnapped girls.

Reacting on Sunday, January 14, Pantami on his verified social media page in a terse statement said: “Alhamdu lil Laah! I am personally not in of paying ransom to criminals.

“However, since it becomes clear, we lost our daughter Nabeeha yesterday, and the 5 remaining daughters have been threatened, as I spoke with the father on the matter yesterday and today.

“Furthermore, I spoke with a friend and a brother who offered to pay the remaining 50 million Naira of the 60m immediately.

“I conveyed the number of the father of pur daughters, Mansoor Al-Kadriyar, to the friend and brother to send the money directly. Any additional amount earlier generated from yesterday, the father can use to treat the daughters and other family in sha Allah.

“May the Almighty Allah reward the bother and friend with Jannatul Firdaus for the donation. May He also reward all those who contributed in any way with Jannatul Firdaus, too.

“May He also forgive Nabeeha and rescue her sisters. May the Almighty also help our security agencies to bring an end to these challenges. May Nigeria be a better place for all of us. I love Nigeria. #Najeebahandhersisters.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-ex-minister-pantamis-friend-donates-n50m-to-rescue-five-sisters-abducted-in-abuja/

Alhamdulilah. I hope the kidnappers will do the needful after getting the money.

Hijacking of monthly allocation of local governments by governor had left the rural areas without any presence of governance and without social amenities. Governors must allow LGA to function. That vaccum of governance made easy for criminals. - Copied.

My sympathy to the wonderful family, to all ers of this failed system, where all the heads of police , army , military, financial institutions can come from a part ofvthe country with absolutely nothing to offer , it is Good morning FCT Abuja .

Na dem dem. Can't his friend just call and it will be done

Hmmm all is well

They are enabling the kidnappers.

What has police, army said about this incident?

Exminister that should easily have access to police to handle this case.

Which way Nigeria?

Pantami Just tell us say na you donate the money EFCC nogo do you anything

Patanla at it again....Whenever I see Pantami, I see my Bvn, my NIN, my NIMC, my VIN........Only for PataNLa to gather all these sensitive details and then hand them over to the Terrorists who now use the details to trace and Kidnap us......Now he is the first to donate 50M ransom to make it look as though his hands are clean.

Now Pantami has used his friend to front for him inorder to render a financial help to the kidnapped man and daughters.........I am waiting for how Bashiru would want to donate his own fund.......maybe through his friend or his Mother.

After his useless SIM - NIN - BVN linkage terrorist policy only ended up exposing people to more terrorists attacks. These are the same terrorists sympathisers in an out of government.

So what’s now the essence of the NIN he forced us to even at the height of COVID-19 pandemic?

The same Pantami said NIN would curb insecurity challenge like his one that year . One would’ve thought he would use his influence in the past government to reach out to key stakeholders on how to use whatever he’s acheived with NIN to locate the criminals . Abi na audio achievements that one sef be like most of Buhari’s government’s achievements ?

Which direction is Nigeria heading? No peace in almost all parts of the country, why not go back to regional government so that each region will manage this security challenge faster

Now you’re talking that’s the way forward…

Dem Dem Bokos Ltd.

madridguy:
Alhamdulilah. I hope the kidnappers will do the needful after getting the money.

Hijacking of monthly allocation of local governments by governor had left the rural areas without any presence of governance and without social amenities. Governors must allow LGA to function. That vaccum of governance made easy for criminals. - Copied.

See how you shifted blame away from Tinubu, Buhari and APC same thing almost all of them contributing money on Twitter for the victims including the former minister are doing...

I just imagine if this happened in the south east or the perpetrators of this crime were Igbos, would all of your comments be like this?

Hypocrisy is really doing you guys strong thing but there is one thing I know you guys share in common, tribal and/or religious bigotry.

Read your old comment below on Jonathan about his performance on insecurity and see all what you accused him of, now compare it with your comment here....

Una don open new gateway for more terrorists. Una go pay tire

Kidnapping empowerment. What a lucrative venture.

Your point exactly?

Brendaniel:


See how you shifted blame away from Tinubu, Buhari and APC same thing almost all of them contributing money on Twitter for the victims including the former minister are doing...

I just imagine if this happened in the south east or the perpetrators of this crime were Igbos, would all of your comments be like this?

Hypocrisy is really doing you guys strong thing but there is one thing I know you guys share in common, tribal and/or religious bigotry.

Read your old comment below on Jonathan about his performance on insecurity and see all what you accused him of, now compare it with your comment here....

madridguy:
Your point exactly?

Have you called out Tinubu the way you called out Jonathan concerning insecurity? Why divert the responsibility to state and local government instead of the president the way you held Jonathan responsible for insecurity?

Read your old and new comments and see for yourself....

Shameless Pantami. Boko Haram sponsor. If your NIN worked, which phones are these terrorists using to communicate?

Wow.... Good to hear that.

I just mentioned something like this in my previous comment.

Abeg mk dem divide this country..mk Christians stay on their own...

This people don scatter this country

Na so


Pantami no wan tell Una say na him be that him friend.


Make EFCC for no raise am for am!!

Lolz... Thieves

Yep, pay them, and they will go and do it again


I know my solution is not popular, but the day Nigerians stop paying them kidnappers and bandits, that's the day they will give up.

Sure, dem go kill some of their victims. But as time goes on, how many can they kill?

Anyway, the problem started when we started paying them.

Otunba lamba... Invincible friend... Northerners dat kept quiet during buhari's tenure are now finding their voices.. Tinubu should be very careful make dem no Jonathan am

This is one of those things that look really good but is ACTUALLY really BAD.

Imagine a former Minister of Nigeria paying #50,000,000 to KILLERS.

That's reinforcing crime. That's telling the bandits, kidnappers and terrorists that they are doing the right thing. In fact, it's helping them recruit more people and finance their criminal activities.

Instead:

Use that money to track and obliterate these KILLERS. NOT reward them.

If it were some countries, many of these big wigs will be in jail already. How will they give kidnappers money. What are the police doing? God help this COWntry

The chief terrorist himself!!!