Abuja kidnapped sisters: Nigeria defence minister hits out at crowdfunding for ransoms

Nigeria's defence minister has hit out at those paying ransoms to kidnappers, saying crowdfunding makes it worse.

Mohammed Badaru Abubakar’s comments come as a deadline to pay a ransom for the release of five sisters expired.

They were abducted from their home earlier this month in the capital, Abuja, along with another of their sisters who was later killed.

The case has shocked the country and people have been donating to a crowdfunding initiative.

“We are anxious, everyone is waiting. We just want them back home. All of them [the family] are just praying,” Asiya Adamu, a cousin to the…