Gunmen attacks Kaduna School, abduct female students

Unspecified numbers of female students have been abducted by the gunmen in the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Mando in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The gunmen stormed the school in the early hour of Friday, only the female students have been abducted as the male students were not taken away.

However, Mr Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security confirmed the incident and said an investigation is ongoing.

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Also, the Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Jalige, ASP, confirmed the attack, noting that it took place last night.

Meanwhile, this incident occurs barely 48hrs after the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan presented the 2020 security situation reports to the state governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai.

In that report, the commissioner had said bandits killed no fewer than 937 persons, kidnapped 1,972 persons, and rustled 7,195 cattle in the state in 2020.

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai had insisted during the event that his administration had no room for negotiation or granting amnesty to bandits.