14, 2020, shows a classroom block at the Government Science
Secondary School, Ƙankara, Katsina State.
A resident of Ƙankara Local Government Area has revealed
why bandits abducted over 300 schoolboys in Katsina
State.
The man who does not want his identity revealed told
Channels Television on Monday that the bandits abducted
the students from the Government Science Secondary School, Ƙankara
in what he described as a reprisal.
He revealed that the bandits had attacked ‘Yar-Kuka village last
week where some villagers were killed and others abducted.
“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.
“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.
14, 2020, shows a classroom at the Government Science Secondary
School, Ƙankara, Katsina State.
He explained that as a result, this made the bandits strike
again and that led to the attack on the schoolchildren on Friday
night.
The man stated that the bandits stormed the school and started
shooting sporadically in the air, causing commotion and stampede
before scaling over the fence and burgling the gate.
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According to him, the bandits gathered the students in a place
and shepherded them to Pauwa village where they had parked their
motorcycles.
The abduction of the schoolboys came at a time when President
Muhammadu Buhari travelled to his hometown in Daura, Katsina State
on a private visit.
He condemned the abduction of the students and directed the
reinforcement of security of all schools in line with the safe
school policy of his administration.
14, 2020, shows a section of the Government Science Secondary
School, Ƙankara, Katsina State.
In a statement on Saturday, the Presidency said the military had
located the bandits’ location and were in the process of retrieving
the abducted students.
The Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi, had also
given an assurance that the boys would be rescued in some few hours
when he led a delegation of the Federal Government, including the
service chiefs to the state.
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State confirmed that at least
333 students were missing, and almost a day since the minister made
the promise, the schoolboys had yet to return.
VIDEO: The Minister of Defence, Major
General Bashir Magashi, says all the schoolboys will return home in
the next few hours.