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Nigeria: Hundreds of students feared abducted by gunmen

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December 14, 2020
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17 Nigerian students rescued from Boko Haram, two dead

Parents and family members gathered at the school after attacks. Image: Reuters

Authorities have indicated that more than 300 schoolboys are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in Kankara, a town in the north-western Katsina state of Nigeria.

Attackers on motorcycles had earlier stormed the all-boys Government Science School and engaged security forces in a fierce gun battle, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in the surrounding forest.

“So far we are yet to account for 333 pupils,” Katsina Governor Aminu Masari said after a meeting with security officials, adding that the boarding school had a total of 839 students.

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Masari said students who managed to escape the attack have been coming out of hiding in the forest. It is unclear if the students initially hid or they escaped from their attackers.

“Efforts are being made to ascertain the actual number of children that have been kidnapped,” said Masari.

Meanwhile, parents and family members have gathered at the school, issuing a plea to authorities to bring the missing boys to safety.

“If it’s not government that will help us, we have no power to rescue our children,” Murja Mohammed, whose son was taken, told reporters.

Meanwhile, the hashtag BringBackOurBoys is trending on social media in Nigeria as public outrage grows about yet another attack on school goers.

Defence Minister, Major General Bashir Salihi-Magash, who met Masari, the governor, said the military will pursue the attackers and rescue the students without any collateral damage.

“We will go the whole hog,” said Salihi-Magash. “We have the intelligence, the information where they are and their movement and their method of operation.”

SCHOOL ATTACK TOOK PLACE
The Government Science secondary school in Kankara, northern Nigeria, where the attack took place
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Bint’a Ismail, mother of an abducted child, said residents of Katsina “are in a terrifying condition”.

“We don’t see the value of the government. I have a younger brother and a child taken by the kidnappers. I’m from Danja, Katsina state and I’ve been here in the school since dawn and yet there’s no update,” Ismail said.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the area is far from the usual area of operation of the Boko Haram armed group which began its violent campaign in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009 with the goal of imposing its version of strict Islamic law.

EMPTY CLASS
Students rushed out to hide when gunmen attacked the school premises.

In 2018, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 100 girls in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Dapchi. And six years ago, in 2014, the same group abducted more than 270 girls in the town of Chibok.

All state schools in Katsina were ordered to close because officials did not know the attackers’ motives.

Ovigwe Eguegu, Geopolitical and Security Analyst at Afripolitika told reporters it is very likely that the perpetrators of the Kankara attack are bandits and not members of Boko Haram.

“These states [such as Katsina] in north-western Nigeria are known to have serious attacks by bandits, uncoordinated groups that don’t really have any malign intention against the state, or are trying to impose any policy on … the state like we have with Boko Haram,” Eguegu said.

“These are just criminal elements operating freely in north-western Nigeria.”

Oby Ezekwesili, a former Nigerian Education Minister, admitted to reporters that the latest abduction of schoolchildren was a “major tragedy” and “an indication that we learned no lessons from previous tragedies”.

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