According to Punch, the students were ambushed while journeying on a bus along Okigwe-Uturu road.
In a statement on Thursday, May 6, 2021,
John Kalu, the state commissioner for Information confirmed the development.
Kalu said, two of the students have escaped from the clutches of their abductors, while others were still being held hostage by the criminals.
The statement reads,
“Abia State Government is currently monitoring an incident that happened in Okigwe, Imo State, yesterday which led to the suspected abduction of yet to be determined number of students of the Abia State University, Uturu, who apparently ran into a yet to be identified gang of hoodlums operating along the Okigwe-Uturu Road.