The eight rescued victims who have been receiving medical attention at Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, EKSUTH Ado Ekiti have been discharged after a week in the facility.
The victims including five school children and three staff of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti were kidnapped on january 29 along Emure-Eporo Road, on their way home after closing from school.
They spent six days in the kidnappers’ den before they were released last Sunday
February 4 but the school bus driver, Mr Taye Rasaki was killed by the abductors.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Oyebanji Filani who spoke at EKSUTH in Ado Ekiti while discharging them, said the pupils and their teachers had been properly treated by various teams in the teaching hospital.
He noted that their condition had been stabilised and fit, hence the need to reunite them with their families.
Also, the Chief Medical Director, EKSUTH , Professor Kayode Olabanji said the victims had been given necessary medical attention before they were discharged today.(Sunday).
The grandmother of three of the school children, Mrs Dorcas Ojo, said it would not be possible for her to remain alive if the kidnappers had not released her three grandchildren.
Mrs Ojo thanked the state government and all the well wishers for their support and prayers during and after the incident.
One of the children whose name could not be ascertained disclosed that they were forced to trek long distance in the bush without giving them any food to eat for the six days they were in captivity.
