Gunmen who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28, 2022 and killed eight people have released a fresh hostage video showing their victims in an unidentified location suspected to be a forest.
The chief executive officer of Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali-Hassan, who was recently released was flanked by other abductees in the new video.
The masked terrorists wore military uniforms and stood behind the abductees in the video released on Sunday.
In the latest video, some of the captives were seen calling on the government to come to their rescue.
One of them is a lady who identified herself as a student of Kaduna State University.
Another man said he was on his way to Kaduna for eye treatment when he was abducted.
“In my own case, I’m a staff of INEC Kaduna State and I’m appealing to the government to please come to our assistance,” one of the victims said.
Another one in a yellow shirt said she was talking on behalf of the students on the attacked train. “Government should please try and come to our aid,” she said.
The person recording the video, who appeared to be one of the abducted passengers, asked the lady, in English, which school she attends. She replied that she is a student of Agriculture at Kaduna State University.
Another female passenger said, “I’m Gladys …. an ex-staff of Defense Industry of Nigeria. What happened on Monday was needless if the government would listen and accede to what the populace are talking about …”
Four male passengers, including Hassan, were standing while the others sat.
“We’re the passengers from Abuja going to Kaduna in the attacked train on Monday, the 28th of March,” one of the passengers said in the Hausa language.
“From that time to now, only we know the kind of situation we’ve been into in this place. There are a lot of women and children, also old people who are mostly sick and some of us who are also not too young. Please, we’re calling on friends and well-wishers and government, which is the reason we found ourselves in this situation, to quickly do something to save us from here,” he said.
Hassan also chipped in by saying the bandits told them they have grievances against the government.
“I want to call on the government to look for these people and discuss the issues,” he said.
