SPECIAL REPORT: Terrorists’ attacks worsen food security in Katsina, Yobe

Gambo Ibrahim sold two of his farmlands to raise the N900,000 ransom demanded by kidnappers for the release of his two brothers.

Mr Ibrahim was a large-scale farmer in Kuka, a village in the Jibia area of Katsina State. His two brothers were supervising work in one of his farms when they were kidnapped by bandits three years ago.

“After paying that money, I contributed about five times to ransoms for the release of relatives and friends,” he told PREMIUM TIMES in an interview.

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