What could be the motive behind the increasing attacks by bandits on female university students in parts of the country? That is the searing question
elevated to the fore by the resurging selective attacks and abduction of female university students in the last two weeks.around 2am last Wednesday while shooting indiscriminately to ward off possible resistance. By the time their fire power subsided, five final year female students were abducted and ferried to unknown destination.
A private university located in Kaduna State was in April 20, 2021 similarly attacked with the bandits abducting about 20 students. Some of the students were released after ransom payment while in a twist of fate, three of the unfortunate ones were shot dead by the demented bandits and their bodies dumped in a village close to the university. Two other students died as a result of the attack bringing the casualty rate to five.
Sadly, five of the students died of exhaustion while one of them Leah Sharibu was held back for failing to denounce her religion. News made the round a fortnight ago that she had married another Boko Haram commander after dumping a previous one with whom she had two children. As I write, the fate of some of the abducted students remains uncertain. President Tinubu gave the security agencies a marching order to ensure the release of the students. Ironically, the federal government and the Zamfara State governor, Dauda Lawal got embroiled in serious altercation on the rightful approach to the matter.
Lawal has no confidence in such negotiations and would prefer that the bandits are smoked out from their hiding places. He prefers the kinetic approach given the intransigence and unreliability of agreements entered into by the bandits. But we have gone through this path before. The body language of the last administration to killings in parts of the country did inject some complications into the prosecution of the war. This was manifest in the handling of killings and despoliation of communities by rampaging herdsmen.
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