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13 months after abduction, family of 13-year-old abducted student live in pain, hope

What we miss about him ‘Student hypnotised, unwilling to return home’ It’s untrue, we believe he’s willing to come back – Family For Mary Peter, Treasure Ayuba, is not just a grandson. She said, “He is my blood and flesh. His mother only gave birth to him, but I am his everything. […]
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What we miss about him
‘Student hypnotised, unwilling to return home’
It’s untrue, we believe he’s willing to come back – Family

For Mary Peter, Treasure Ayuba, is not just a grandson. She said, “He is my blood and flesh. His mother only gave birth to him, but I am his everything. He and I had a strong bond even before he was born.”

For this reason, when her sleep was interrupted around 2am on July 5, 2021 to be told that the young Ayuba, who had just turned 12 three days earlier, was abducted from his school dormitory, Mrs Peter broke into tears.

“I rushed to wake his mother up and the rest of the people in the house. We spent the rest of the night crying and praying before we rushed out to the school at dawn,” she recalled the moment in an interview with Daily Trust Saturday in the family’s small bungalow in Kaduna’s suburb of Mahuta.

Her grandson was among the 121 students abducted from the Bethel Baptist High School, located at Maraban Damishi in Chikun Local Government of Kaduna State last year.

During the overnight raid, which was allegedly masterminded by a bandit kingpin in the area, Tukur Sharme, two military personnel on guard duty at the school – Private Salisu Rabiu and Ordinary Seaman Bilal Mohammed – were killed.

Ayuba was a new student enrolled into the school to begin his journey for secondary education. The school was chosen because his mother – who finished from the school – believed it would be a good place for moral and educational development of her child. She had no premonition that the boy’s journey in her alma mater would be short and end in tragedy.

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