Tension in Schools as Terrorists Kidnap Over 800 in One Week, Kill Scores

BY Segun Bakare
8 months ago

The safety of youngsters is once more a concern as criminals conduct bold attacks throughout the nation’s north.

According to the Propolitics, over 800 gullible Nigerians, primarily students, were abducted by daring terrorists in the northern region of the country between Wednesday, March 6, and Monday, March 11.

Amnesty International, AI reports that on Tuesday of last week, militants from Boko Haram kidnapped over 400 individuals in Borno State, including women and children.

The victims were kidnapped by Islamic extremists after they allegedly left the camps of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Gamboru Ngala council area in quest of firewood.

The majority of the dead were women and children who had been looted from their ancestral homes by terrorists wreaking havoc in the Northeast.

Less than a day following the Borno assault, more than On March 8, robbers kidnapped 280 students and faculty members from Government Secondary School and LEA Primary School in Kuriga, Kaduna State, sparking outrage across the country.

At least 280 students and instructors were abducted by the ruthless bandits who broke into the Kuriga region of Kaduna State’s Chikun Local Government region early in the morning and began shooting at their victims.

A few days after the Kuriga tragedy, the attackers attacked once more, kidnapping around 61 persons in the Buda hamlet of Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State.

The tragic occurrence is alleged to have claimed the lives of about four people.

Propolitics also notes that on March 9, armed men broke into a boarding school in Gidan Bakuso village, Sokoto State’s Gada council region, and kidnapped roughly fifteen kids. The kids were asleep when the intruders broke into the school.

The same week, suspected armed Fulani militia invaded the Gbagir hamlet in Benue State’s Ukum Local Government Area, killing approximately fifty people—including a family of seven.

Proplitics further recalls that an attack on Wa-ndoo, a hamlet in Mbalom, Gwer-East Local Government Area, Benue State, on March 8 resulted in the deaths of over sixteen individuals.

The settlement was attacked at night while some of the residents were having dinner by the attackers, who the state governor, Hyacinth Alia, and the locals claimed were armed herdsmen. They started shooting at the people and swept some of them off.