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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC Journalists from all around the world.
I'm your host, Farnak Amidi.
A team of BBC Journalists were the first to reach the remote location of a school kidnapping back in November in the village of Papiri,
Western Nigeria.
More than 300 children were taken from state boarding school by armed groups.
Nigeria has been experiencing a kidnapping crisis for over a decade,
including the infamous kidnapping of 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok,
eastern Nigeria, in 2014, by the Islamist group Boko Haram.
An espate of abductions last month has underlined the persistence of the issue.
One of the journalists from that team is online with me right now,
Medina Meishanu, senior journalist from BBC Africa.
So Medina, I know you are in the deployment and in the car talking to us, but just tell us,
why was it important for you to be on the location in the village of Papiti after the kidnapping happened?
So for me, it was important because there was a lot of confusion already.
going on while the parents were left in the limbo.
So everyone from outside of Perperia reported that 303 school children were taken and then the information that was gotten from the authorities is something different.