Freed Kagara Victims Now In Minna
The kidnapped students and staff of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger, have arrived in Minna, the State capital. A total of 27 students, three.
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Sat Feb 27 2021
The kidnapped students and staff of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger, have arrived in Minna, the State capital.
A total of 27 students, three staff and 12 members of their family were abducted in the attack on the school.
In a video, the students wee seen filing out from the bush. The footage was said to have been shot around Attahiru Secondary School, Madaka, Niger State.
Jibrin Usman, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education in Niger, said the commissioner has been contacted to receive the boys ahead of their meeting with the governor.
By Bola A. Akinterinwa
Nigeria became a terra cognita, not only for politics of self-deceit, but particularly for armed banditry and insurrection under President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB), an Army General. More unfortunate too, the armed banditry has become recidivist in character while the insurrection by the Boko Haramists is increasingly being overshadowed by the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict. And perhaps most unfortunately, PMB has not been able to nip the problems of insecurity in the bud.
His inability to contain the brutality meted out by the bandits and insurgents to the good people of Nigeria has been traced to many suspicions: allegations of PMB not being in charge of the governance of Nigeria, his politics of nepotism, purported Islamic cum Fulanisation agenda, medical unfitness, and incompetence. Like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, PMB was a one-time military Head of State and a one-time elected President of Nigeria. He is currently in his second presidential term.
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Godwin Isenyo
There are indications that the government might consider releasing some arrested bandits as a part of the bargains to secure the release of 27 pupils and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, kidnapped on Wednesday.
It was learnt on Friday that the group of bandits responsible for the abduction wanted their gang members in custody of security agencies released as a swap deal to free the abductees.
Bandits in military uniform had reportedly stormed the school around 2am on Wednesday, and seized their victims, killing a Senior Secondary School 3 pupil who raised the alarm in the process.
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Kagara School Kidnap: My escape was a miracle Staff
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•I’ve never witnessed such a thing in my life School principal
By Wole Mosadomi
Last Wednesday, February 17 was a day staff and students of Government Science College, Kagara, in Niger State would live to remember. That was the day 27 students, three members of staff and 12 family members of the staff of the school were abducted by bandits in the middle of the night.
As they were marched out of their staff quarters and hostels, the bandits tied them in pairs with ropes to form a long chain to ensure that they did not escape. They were then made to walk few kilometers away from the college to where the bandits had stationed their motorcycles and ferried their victims into the bush.