No fewer than 312 students and a principal, Abubakar Isah were abducted on Thursday March 7, when bandits raided the LEA Primary and Junior Secondary School, Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
While speaking to the governor of the state Uba Sani, who was at the scene of the incident on Thursday 7 March, authorities of the school and community leaders noted that 187 students were abducted from the secondary school section and 125 from the primary school section.
According to one of the teachers, Sani Abdullahi who escaped from the hands of the abductors, revealed that 25 of the pupils from the primary section had returned, leaving 287 students and the principal in captivity.
Abdullahi informed the governor that at exactly 7:47am, he entered the acting principal’s office to sign his attendance when, suddenly, the bandits ring fenced 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 there were many of them, and the pupils, who are about 700 were following us. So, when we entered the bush, I was lucky to escape alongside many other people.
“So, I returned to the village and reported what happened to the community. So, immediately our vigilantes and personnel of the Kaduna State Vigilance Service (KADVS) followed the bandits, but the vigilantes did not succeed. In fact, the bandits killed one of the vigilantes; we just buried him a short while ago.” He added.
Meanwhile, Governor Sani has assured that the government would leave no stone unturned in order to ensure the safe return of all the kidnapped victims.
