In their small, decrepit home in Yawota, in Nigeria’s southwestern Oyo State, sisters Deborah Oyedele and Abosede Ojedele took turns consoling each other as they waited for news of their abducted children.
Oyedele’s son and Ojedele’s two boys were among 46 children—aged two to 16—and staff seized by gunmen from their schools on May 15 in two neighbouring towns on the edges of Old Oyo National Park.
Southwestern Nigeria has long been considered one of the safest regions in a country struggling with multiple security crises.
But the kidnappings quickly became a hot-button issue, prompting protests, a statewide teachers’ strike and high-profile condemnation, including from Afrobeats stars Tiwa Savage and Davido, who wore a jacket bearing the abductees’ names at a World Cup Countdown Concert in Los Angeles.
Four people, including a hunter who said he joined a failed rescue party the day after the raids, told AFP the attackers
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