KADUNA: Gunmen attack Green Field University, abduct students

By Samuel Joseph

SOME gunmen suspected to be bandits this late yesterdsay attacked the campus of Green Field University, and abducted a number of students.

As of the time of filing this report the exact number of students abducted could not be ascertained.

The gunmen, who reportedly stormed the school around midnight yesterday, were said to have opened fire to scare away residents before kidnapping some students.

The abduction happened hours after Governor Nasir el-Rufai insisted that bandits must be killed and not spared when caught. He said it was a unanimous decision by governors across the federation.

With this development the number of students in the clutches of kidnappers in Kaduna State has increased as 29 of those abducted from Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi LGA are still languishing in the den of bandits.

Meanwhile Governor el-Rufai has vowed never to pay ransom to bandits to secure release of any victim of kidnapping.

He said even if his son was kidnapped he would change not his position.

“I mean it and I will say it again here. Even if my son is kidnapped, I will rather pray for him to make heaven instead because I won’t pay any ransom,” el-Rufai had said during a radio interview.