Again, Bandits Kidnap Over 200 Students In Niger State

By Adesina Soyooye

Twenty four hours after the students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, were released by their abductors who kept them for 40 days, over 200 students of an Islamiyya School located at Tegina, in Rafi Local Government Area  of Niger State have been abducted.

During the operation which happened in the early evening of Sunday, March 30, there was one fatality, and a critically injured person.

According to a resident of the area, Zayyad Mohammed, the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school where the students were abducted, was built by a retired Immigration Officer.

The school is not a conventional  boarding school, but parents, usually, took their children to the  Islamiyya school, daily, to study Islamic education.

Neither the State Government nor the Police Command has confirmed the abduction, but this will be the second time, in recent months, that students will be abducted in Niger State.

It is not known if the State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, will pay the ransome money if, and when, demanded, but he lamented, recently, that bandits deceived his Government, took money  from it, and used the money to buy more arms.

Parents of the recently released Greenfield students   revealed they bought their children’s freedom with N160m and ten motorcycles – without any help from either the State Government or the Federal Government.