NO fewer than 210 students have been abducted by bandits since January in the state, the Police have said.
Commissioner of Police, Umar Muri, disclosed this yesterday.
While briefing the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman who was on a visit to Kaduna, Muri noted the Command was faced with worrisome crime waves including kidnapping, culpable homicide, armed robbery, cattle rustling, rape, human trafficking and other lesser crimes comprising of obtaining money by false pretence, criminal breach of trust, cheating, criminal trespass, theft, mischief among others.
Muri told the IGP the most disheartening crime bedevilling the State was the unrepentant and horrifying activities of kidnappers abducting students from learning institutions and some routes which including Kaduna – Abuja highway, Kaduna – Birnin Gwari Road and Kaduna – Zaria road.
Muri said: “From our records, the schools that have been attacked and students abducted in Kaduna State from January 2021 to date alone include:-
“College of Forestry and Mechanisation, Mando Afaka –where thirty-seven (37) students were kidnapped on 11th March, 2021 and subsequently rescued.
“Green Field University along Kaduna-Abuja Highway where twenty-three (23) Students were kidnapped on 20th April, 2021 and five (5) of the students were gruesomely killed by their abductors while the rest were released.
“Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria where two (2) kidnapping incidents were recorded, first involving three (3) students on 14th December, 2020 who were later released by their abductors and the second incident was recorded on the 10th of June 2021 involving two (2) lecturers and seven (7) students.
“The National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Saye, Zaria LGA of Kaduna where eight (8) staff were kidnapped on 4th July, 2021; and
“Bethel Baptist Academy, Maraban Rido, Kaduna where one hundred and thirty-five (135) students were kidnapped on 5th July, 2021 out of which twenty-eight (28) were rescued and the remaining one hundred and seven (107) victims still in captivity.”
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