Three health workers in Zamfara state who were kidnapped on Saturday, June 25, along the Gusau Dansadau highway in Maru Local Government, have been released by their abductors.
The health workers including one Muhammad Mansur, a medical doctor, in charge of Dansadau general hospital Dansadau, in the Maru council area, were reportedly kidnapped after being ambushed by the kidnap syndicate.
The kidnappers returned the N5 million ransom paid for the release of the health workers, according to Premium Times.
The kidnapped victims were released on Friday morning, July 1, after cattle herdsmen who are committed to a lasting peace with the Dansadau farming communities, intervened and secured the release of the health workers as well as stopping the payment of the N5 million ransom their abductors demanded.
A traditional ruler in the community, Mustapha Umar, said the concerned cattle herders escorted the ransom bearer, Sama’ila Nagogo, to the delivery location where they caught the kidnappers, and took them to their superiors.
Umar added that the cattle herders asked the gang leader of kidnap syndicate to free the arrested members, and return the N5 million ransom, and the kidnappers did that.
He said, “The ransom was returned to the owner, Mamman Tsafe, whose children were among the kidnapped victims.
“We learned that the kidnappers are popular in the area, and probably not aware of the peace truce entered between the crop farmers and the cattle herders in Dansadau.”
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