In a repeat of mass abductions in the North since the infamous April 2014 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, bandits yesterday attacked a government primary school at Kuriga community of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting scores of pupils.
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The source said: “The bandits came when the assembly was almost over, surrounded the whole school and forcefully carted away more than 200 students from the primary and secondary sections, including one teacher. The gunmen also shot one boy during the operation and was rushed to hospital by the school authority for treatment.”
The Kaduna State Government is yet to speak on the incident. Attempts to reach the Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, were not successful . Three weeks ago, a wanted kidnapper and ruthless killer, Isyaku Boderi, was killed by security forces in the Chikun local government with some of his lieutenants. It was not immediately clear whether Thursday’s incident was connected to his killing.
According to him: “I resumed at exactly 7:47am. I entered the Acting Principal’s office and signed. All of a sudden, the Acting Principal asked me to look at my back and when I turned, we discovered that bandits had surrounded the school premises. We became confused, we didn’t know where to go. Then, the bandits asked us to enter the bush, so we obeyed them because they were many and the pupils were about 700 following us.
Meanwhile, in his reaction, Sani said: “In my capacity as your governor, I am assuring you that, by the grace of God, all the children will return unhurt. Before coming here, I spoke with the National Security Adviser , Nuhu Ribadu, and we are making efforts, the security forces have swung into action and by God’s grace, we will rescue the children.
Suspected Boko Haram members had on Wednesday stormed an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Gamboru Ngala town in Borno and abducted scores of the IDPs, most of whom are women. “We, as a House, are pained that the families of the abducted persons are going through what they are going through now. In the spirit of the International Women Day Celebration tomorrow , we pray that these women and those still in captivity be freed from their abductors. There is no better way to celebrate Women Day without calling for the protection and release of these women”, he added.
The Speaker, while praying for the safe return of the abductees, urged the security agencies to deploy all resources for their rescue. The Speaker also stated that the 10th House under his leadership would do everything possible legislatively to increase the capacity of the military and paramilitary agencies towards security life and property across Nigeria.
At Obagede, the gunmen abducted a Chinese national, just as his security guard, an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, was killed. The rights group said the President should prove naysayers wrong by dismissing his security heads who have only given Nigerian poor performance and fallacious excuses.
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