
The father of one of the 39 abducted college students in Kaduna State, Ibrahim Shamaki, is dead.
According to media reports, Ibrahim was the father of Fatima Shamaki, one of the girls with hijab seen in the video that was released by bandits who have in custody, 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Afaka area of the Kaduna.
According to family sources, late Shamaki died of a heart attack resulting from an illness that afflicted him shortly after the news of his daughter’s abduction was broken to him.
He was said to have given up the ghost on Friday evening while his relatives were about to take him to a hospital for further medical treatment.
This comes as Fatima Shamaki and the other abducted students mark 15 nights in the captivity of the bandits.