They condemned the statement credited to the Kaduna State Government that it won’t negotiate with bandits.

While addressing a press conference on the matter on Monday, the parents said the government was insensitive to their plight and vowed to negotiate with the bandits for their children’s freedom

The Chairman and Secretary of a group formed by the parents, Sam Kambai and Sanni Friday, respectively, spoke on behalf of others at the briefing.

He said “Today (Monday) makes it 25 dreary and excruciatingly difficult days since our children have been in captivity. We have not received any words of empathy or assurance from government or have we seen any action to inspire confidence that something is being done to secure the safe release of our children. For the record, the governor of Kaduna State has never addressed the parents of these students from the first day of the incident until now. We wish to reiterate that we will do everything within our power to ensure that our children do not perish. Let us be clear, it is due to the failure of government to live up to its primary responsibility of securing life and property that we have this ugly development in our hands. For government not to do everything to secure the release of the students 25 days after their abduction, and for government to keep the parents in the dark, smacks of gross insensitivity,”