Chikun abduction: 287 students are with bandits, says teacher who escaped captivity

• Abdullahi disclosed that a total of 287 students are still being held by the armed non-state actors.
• He added that 25 students also escaped from the assailants.

More information has emerged regarding the abduction of over 200 students in Kaduna state on Thursday.

Within Nigeria had reported how rampaging bandits terrorising the north west state invaded Government Secondary School (GSS), Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of the State and abducted hundreds of hapless students and some staff of the school.

However, Sani Abdullahi, one of the teachers who fled captivity has recounted what transpired before and during the incident.

Abdullahi disclosed that a total of 287 students are still being held by the armed non-state actors.

He made the disclosure while speaking with Governor Uba Sani who led government officials to the scene of the incident on Thursday evening,

Abdullahi said the bandits took them by surprise, adding that 25 students also escaped from the assailants.

“I resumed to the school today at exactly 7:47am. 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 bandits had surrounded the school premises.”

“We became confused, we didn’t know where to go. Then, the bandits asked us to enter the bush, so we obeyed them because they were many and the pupils, who are 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 vigilante, 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 know 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.”

The Kaduna school abduction happened less than 48 hours after terrorists abducted over 300 internally displaced persons in Borno state after the ventured beyond government designated safe zone.