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Shehu Sani mocks Buhari as bandits abduct another set of students
BY KAZIE UKO
Former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has made mockery of President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise that the Jangebe, Zamfara State, Government Girls Science Secondary School students abduction in February by bandits was going to be the last in the country.
“When they said that the Jangebe Kidnappings would be the last, it’s clear that they really underestimated the enormity and gravity of the problem,” Sani blurted, in a tweet on Friday after news filtered in that another set of schoolgirls, this time in Kaduna State, has been abducted by bandits.
“Kidnapping is now a thriving lucrative business and students are now their stocks and Goldmine.
“Bandits invaded and kidnap(ped) students at the Federal College of Forestry mechanization Afaka, in the outskirts of Kaduna, near the Airport and close to the Nigerian Defence Academy. Our city is under siege. Our tragedy is round the clock. No lessons learned from Kagara,” Sani, a member of the 8th Senate lashed out.
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President Buhari had through the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, who led federal government’s delegation to sympathise with the people and government of Zamfara over the abduction of the Jangebe schoolgirls on Friday, February 26 2021, promised that the incident was going to be the last.
Buhari, according to Sirika, said new measures had been developed by the federal government to bring an end to all forms of criminality in the nation.
“The President is saddened by the abduction of the students from Jangebe and reassures you that the government has all the resources and wherewithal to contain these criminals,” Sirika related.
President Buhari thereafter announced approved a flurry of security measures, including the imposition of a “no fly zone” order on Zamfara airspace.
But less than two weeks after, armed bandits stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, Kaduna, north-west Nigeria, in the early hours of Friday, opened fire and kidnapped an unknown number of students, said to be mostly girls.
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The attack was the third mass kidnapping of students from schools in north west Nigeria this year and police said they were working to rescue the students.
“The police and the military are on top of the situation. We are trying to liaise with the school management to know the exact number of students that were abducted and then see the possibility of rescuing them unhurt and arresting the perpetrators,” Kaduna police spokesman Mohammed Jalige told CNN.
The remaining students, according to Daily Trust report, have been evacuated to the 1 Division Garrison Command of the Nigerian Army in Ribadu Cantonment, Kaduna.
A military source said but for the efforts of personnel of the Nigerian Air Force and troops of 1 Division, the attack would have been worse.
The source, who did not want to be named, said some students were rescued during the attack but the kidnappers escaped with an unconfirmed number of students.