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By Modupe Shodeinde
The Principal of the Government Science College, Kagara in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, has described how kidnappers abducted 27 students and 15 workers on Wednesday.
Vangaurd Newspaper reported that during the incident which occurred around 2:00am, a student, Benjamin Doma, was shot dead.
The Principal of the college, Mr. Aliyu Isah, said: ‘’The bandits forced the gate open, came to my apartment, held me and asked me to lead them to the hostel.
‘’They told the students not to run, that they were soldiers, because two of them were dressed in Army camouflage, while one was in black. Some of the students managed to run into the bush, as the bandits started shooting sporadically.’’
One of the students who managed to escape the attack, said the bandits chased after them, shooting ceaselessly.
According to him, it was in the process one of their schoolmates, identified as Benjamin Doma, was hit in the head by a bullet and he died on the spot.
He said some of the bandits were also dressed in the school’s uniform to deceive the students, lamenting that security men did not respond on time.
According to the Punch Newspaper, a resident who lives close to the school, said the bandits, who wore military uniform, stormed the school at 2am.
The source, disclosed that before moving to the GSS Kagara, the bandits had parked their motorcycles close to Attahiru Secondary School, a distance of one kilometre to the GSS Kagara.
He stated that, “When they (the victims) were being taken away, I saw that they were tied in pairs and marched to where the motorcycles were parked from where they were taken into the bush.”
The incident occurred just five days after some bandits hijacked a passenger bus owned by the Niger state’s transport company and kidnapped its occupants.
The President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, deployed security chiefs to the state to begin search for the kidnapped students and their teachers.
Also, the state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, who decried the incessant raid of some local government areas of the state in the past few weeks, ordered immediate closure of all boarding schools in four local government areas, including Rafi, Mariga, Munya and Shiroro.
He insisted that all the boarding schools in the areas would remain closed until security improved.
