No less than 312 students and a principal, Abubakar Isah were abducted during school hours on Thursday when bandits invaded the LEA Primary and Junior Secondary School, Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
According to reports officials of the school and community leaders also told the Governor Uba Sani and his key Government Officials that 187 students were abducted from the secondary school section and 125 from the primary school section.
Sani Abdullahi who escaped the abduction along others said 25 of the pupils from the primary section had returned.
While narrating the experience to the Governor, Abdullahi said at exactly 7:47am, he entered the acting principal’s office to sign his attendance when all of a sudden, the bandits surrounded the school premises.
“I resumed to the school today at exactly 7:47 am. I entered the Acting Principal’s office and signed. All of a sudden, the acting principal asked me to look at my back, and when I turned, we discovered that the school premises surrounded bandits.
“We became confused; we didn’t know where to go. Then, the bandits asked us to enter the bush, so we obeyed them because there were many and the pupils, about 700, were following us.
“So, when we entered the bush, I was lucky to escape alongside many others. I returned to the village and reported what happened to the community.
“So, immediately, our vigilante and personnel of KADVIS followed the bandits, but the vigilante did not succeed; in fact, the bandits killed one of the vigilantes; we just buried him a short while ago.
“It was when we came back from that pursuit that we briefed the village head, and we started making efforts to find out the actual number of pupils and teachers taken away by the bandits.
“At GSS Kuriga, 187 students are presently missing. In the primary school, 125 pupils were initially missing, but 25 of them escaped and returned home,” he added.
