FGC Abduction: How One Student Died Of Asthmatic Attack, Two Others Of Exhaustion

By Gideon Njoku

More details have emerged on the abduction, on Friday, June 9, of the students of the Federal Government College Yauri by bandits.

It is now confirmed that a total of 102 people, including eight members of Staff – four academic staff members and four non-academic staff members were abducted as against the 30 being bandied around. It is, also, now confirmed that a total of eight students  and a staff member have been rescued.

But here’s the most heartbreaking: Contrary to the earlier report that one student died of exhaustion, three students actually lay dead.

A female student who was asthmatic died of asthmatic attack, while two boys died of exhaustion. The student who died of asthmatic attack was from Wushishi, Niger State. The two boys who died of exhaustion were, also, both from Niger State.

These facts and figures were given by the  devastated Principal of the, Alhaji Almustapha Ayuba Sokoto when he received, in audience, the Emir of Yawuri, Dr Zayyanu Abdullahi, who visited the College for an on-the-spot assessment. Those abducted were mostly students in SS1 and SS2.

One woman said her son was shot two times on the back, and abducted while he was trying to save some pupils of a Primary School in the same premises with the students. However, he was pushed down from the truck, when the bandits saw that he was bleeding profusely.

Sources say that SS3 students, billed to write their final examination,  have been moved to another school as the venue for the examination.

Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu, on a visit to the school, decried the sad incident, and assured that he would make every effort to see to the rescue of the remaining students and teachers.

Unconfirmed reports claim that one of the leaders of the Bandits, identified as manja Gara has been arrested by the Military*

The Abduction of students from their schools has become a big time business in the North.

Recently, when the students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, were abducted,  five of them were killed while Parents of the remaining students paid the sum of N160m in ransome money in addition to ten motorcycles.

Till date, over 200 students of an Islamic school in Niger  State are still in the custody of Bandits who abducted them a couple of weeks ago. One of the kids, a three-year old has been found dead.