"They (the kidnappers) carried the youngest three children. The secondary school girls carried some of the smaller pupils, while the others had to walk. We fell many times," she said.

She said the victims were subjected to repeated intimidation by their abductors, who claimed that the government had abandoned them and no longer cared about their fate.

The Principal of Community High School, Ahoro-Esiele in Oyo State, Mrs. Alamu Folawe, has narrated the traumatic ordeal she and other abducted teachers and pupils endured in the…