As the Nigerian Army confirms that 133 pupils were, indeed, abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara,Borno State, it has given an insight into how the bandits carried out the attack.
According to the Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, the bandits stormed the school on motorcycles that ferried the pupils into the bush.
“That is their usual characteristics – those abductors. It is the same system; the same approach they used. There was no evidence, no information about them using other modes of transport,” Enenche said while speaking on ‘Politics Today’ on ‘Channels Television’.
He added that it was the principal who supplied the number of children still missing:
“The principal reported that he had 839 in the boarding house; and as at the time they were abducted, shortly after that, some came back and it was about five hundred plus that did not return.
“As at 2 pm yesterday (Sunday), the students that could not be accounted for reduced to 333. Out of that 333, before I came into the studio, one escaped out of wherever they kept them.”
