Exactly six months into the abduction of train passengers along the Abuja-Kaduna road by terrorists, 23 of the victims are still held captive.

Of the over 60 people abducted on March 28, 23 victims whose relatives cannot afford the ransom demand of the terrorists are still held in the forest; this is in spite of a strong assurance of securing their release from President Muhammadu Buhari when he played host to relatives of the victims at the Presidential Villa in August.

In the wake of the attack, the president had also directed security chiefs to hunt down the terrorists and rescue those abducted.

Armed terrorists had on March 28 ambushed the train heading for Kaduna from the nation’s capital city after bombing its rail track.

In the train attack, at least eight passengers were reportedly killed, while 168 others were kidnapped or declared missing.

It was the second time the rail line between Abuja and Kaduna would be the target of attack.

The attack, which was attributed to the failure of the authorities to act on intelligence reports, occurred only a couple of days after unidentified gunmen invaded the Kaduna Airport, killing an official on the runway.