14, 2020, shows a classroom block at the Government Science
Secondary School, Ƙankara, Katsina State.
One of the schoolchildren kidnapped by bandits in
Kankara, Katsina State has escaped from the
abductors.
“Out of that 333, before I came into the studio, one escaped out
of wherever they kept them,” the Coordinator of Defence Media
Operations, Major General John Enenche said on Channels
Television’s Politics Today on Monday.
He also confirmed that three hundred and thirty-three students
were missing following the attack on Government Science Secondary
School on Friday night.
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“The principal reported that he had 839 in the boarding house;
and as at the time they were abducted, shortly after that, some
came back and it was about five hundred plus that did not return,”
he noted, corroborating the figure earlier released by the Katsina
State Government.
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Enenche who said the kidnappers ferried the student away from
the school via motorcycles, explained that security agencies are
working to ensure the students are rescued alive.
A resident of Kankara claims the incident is a reprisal
attack.
“There is something people are yet to know; before the recent
abduction of Ƙankara Secondary School students, the bandits had on
Wednesday attacked ‘Yar-Kuka village and killed 12 people and
abducted an unspecified number of people in the village.
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“On Thursday, vigilante group mobilised and went after the
bandits in their hideouts and engaged in burning down the Fulani
houses, injuring and killing some of them,” the resident said.
On Friday evening, gunmen attacked Government Science Secondary
School in the Kankara council area of the north-west state,
kidnapping scores of students.
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The incident has continued to draw condemnation from several
quarters with the UN calling for the unconditional release of the
students.
“The Secretary-General calls for the immediate and unconditional
release of the abducted children and for their safe return to their
families. He reiterates that attacks on schools and other
educational facilities constitute a grave violation of human
rights. He urges the Nigerian authorities to bring those
responsible for this act to justice,” the organisation said in a
statement on Monday.