Residents told our correspondent that the schools were shut down on Monday after the attack on UBE Rama and have remained so since then.
“No parent will dare send their child to school after yesterday’s incident,” said Muhammadu Lawal popularly called Mai Saje Rama.
Shehu Hassan of Birnin Gwari town said even though Government Girls Junior and Senior Secondary school Bagoma is a day school and not so far from Birnin Gwari town, students and teachers have stayed back at home for fear of being attacked.
He said on Tuesday morning, bandits returned to a mining site at Bugai community but were engaged by vigilantes.
Bandits have abducted students and teachers from UBE Primary School in Rama, a village in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Daily Trust reports that the incident occurred while pupils were trooping into the school around 9:am on Monday.
A resident Abdulsalam Adam confirmed the attack. He said the gunmen came on about 12 motorcycles. x
“I have been told that three teachers and some pupils have been abducted but we are trying to ascertain the true situation. Right now, our vigilante boys and other volunteers have gone after the bandits,” Adam told Daily Trust.
“We are in the school right now, what we are trying to do is comb the bushes because some of the children ran into the bush. So, we don’t know how many were abducted at the moment.”
Abdulsalam Adam, a resident, said the gunmen came on about 12 motorcycles.
“I have been told that three teachers and some pupils have been abducted but we are trying to ascertain the true situation. Right now, our vigilante boys and other volunteers have gone after the bandits,” he said.
“We are in the school right now, what we are trying to do is comb the bushes because some of the children ran into the bush. So, we don’t know how many were abducted at the moment.”
Mai Saje Rama, another resident, said: “There is a particular parent whose name is Halilu. He said he saw them carry his son on a motorcycle. Most of them decided to brave it by going after the bandits. We are in the school and we have sent for security agents but they have not arrived yet.”
Naomi Francis, a teacher in the school, who escaped abduction, confirmed to
Daily Trust that the three pupils have regained freedom but said they had been beaten by the bandits before luck came their way.
However, nothing is known of the three teachers earlier abducted.
Narrating how the bandits broke into the school, she said: “They came in after the morning assembly. We had all gone into the classrooms when six of the bandits came on motorcycles while others surrounded the school.
“I had stepped out from my class when I noticed students of primary 5 and 6 running out. I immediately alerted my students to run and they did.”
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Bandits, on Monday morning, invaded a nursery and primary school in Kaduna State, abducting an uncertified number of pupils and teachers.
Community members told Daily Trust that the bandits came around 9 am when pupils of the UBE Primary School in Rama, a village in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area were trooping in.
Narrating, a resident who identified himself as Abdulsalam Adam, said the gunmen came on about 12 motorcycles.
“I have been told that three teachers and some pupils have been abducted but we are trying to ascertain the true situation. Right now, our vigilante boys and other volunteers have gone after the bandits.