On Thursday evening, students from the Kaduna State Federal College were abducted. 180 of the 200 kidnapped students were rescued by Nigerian law enforcement.
Kaduna police spokesman and a government official announced on Friday that around XNUMX students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization (Afaka) had been kidnapped the night before.
The information has been kept secret so as not to jeopardize the Nigerian military's rescue efforts. More than 200 students have been kidnapped, 180 of whom were rescued yesterday morning.
This is the fourth attack targeting children in Nigeria in three months. Armed groups, called “bandits” by public opinion and the authorities, have made the exchange of students for ransom their main and most lucrative activity.
The college is located a few meters from the Nigerian Defense Academy in the Mando region of Kaduna State.
Kaduna State Police Command spokesman Mohammed Jalige said that "the attackers invaded the college located in the Mando region on the outskirts of Kaduna and kidnapped students."
The spokesperson explained that security guards were mobilized at the college after hearing about the attack and were able to secure the rest of the students. He also said an investigation was underway to determine the actual number of students who had been abducted, in an attempt to locate the gunmen and rescue the victims.
Mando has been, like all of northwestern Nigeria, the target of these groups of "bandits" who loot, kill, kidnap and rape without any ideological or organizational motivation. In early December, 344 schoolchildren were abducted in Katsina state. And on February 26, 279 female students were kidnapped from their boarding school in Zamfara State.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had said the government would send another 6 troops to Zamfara so that such an incident would not happen again.