Bandits invade another school in the North, abduct 15 students

Bandits invade another school in the North, abduct 15 students

Bandits on Saturday kidnapped at least 15 Tsangaya students in Gidan Bakuso of the Gada Local Government Area of Sokoto State.

The students were taken from their school around 1am.

The propiretor of the school, Liman Abubakar, was reported to have said that 15 students were unaccounted for so far.

The attack came barely two days after 287 pupils were kidnapped with their teachers in a Kaduna community school.

About 300 people, mostly women and children from Internally Displaced Persons camps in Borno State, were earlier in the week abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.

Ironically, the abduction in Sokoto happend at a time the state was witnessing the passing out of its Community Guards Corps, the initiative of the state government aimed at curtailing banditry.

According to Abubakar, the bandits invaded the town around 1am, shot one person and abducted a woman.

“As they were leaving the town, they sighted our students rushing into their rooms and they kidnapped many of them.

“We have so far counted 15 who are missing and we are still searching for more,” he said

Abubakar added that this was not the first time the village was attacked by bandits.

The member, representing Gada-East Constituency at the state House of Assembly, Kabiru Dauda while confirming the attack, said he received a call from the village around 2am that it was invaded by bandits.

reached out to the local government authorities and security agencies and I am sure they are doing something about it,” he said.

Our reporter also gathered that bandits attacked and killed three persons at Turba village in Isa Local Government Area of the state, including the village head.

A member representing, Isa Constituency, Habibu Modachi who confirmed the incident, believed it was a reprisal after security operatives raided bandits’ hideouts two days ago.

The spokesman of the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Ahmad Rufa’i, said he was not aware of the development but he would contact the Divisional Police Officer of the local government areas and get back to our reporter.