Nigeria now has another set of pupils in kidnappers’ dens.
What has now become a siege on the kingdom of education has again happened in Katsina State where nine pupils – all male – have been kidnapped.
Since some 200 pupils were kidnapped in Chibok, there have been a series of abduction, mostly happening in the North, and rendering security agents incapacitated.
The tragedy is pushing some of the governments to shut school or elongate holidays, as is happening in Kaduna State.
According to the police in Katsina State, the students were kidnapped during an attack in Sakkai community in Katsina state.
They were returning from an Islamiyya school in the area when they ran into the gunmen.
“The bandits were seen going into the Sakkai village and abducted nine male students from the school. The students are aged between 12 and 19. No teacher was kidnapped.
The students were on their way home from school. They weren’t abducted in the school. The students met the hoodlums coming into the village to perpetrate their crime, and the hoodlums took the opportunity to grab the students, and they took them away on their motorbikes,” Isha Gambo, the state’s police spokesperson said.
