From Julius Adebayo
Reports just reaching Kayemo News says that scores of Federal University of Gusau students were kidnapped by some bandits early morning today.
The Sabon-Gida hamlet in the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State was said to have been invaded by armed bandits in large numbers.
Nazeer Sabon-Gida, a resident of Sabon-Gida, told newsmen that the gunmen broke into the neighbourhood about 3 am and began firing randomly.
The eyewitness claimed that three student hostels had been raided, and the bandits had abducted every student inside.
According to him, “They entered the town around 3 am and started shooting indiscriminately,” he said.
“We have yet to confirm the number of students kidnapped because the bandits entered three hostels and kidnapped all the students there. It is difficult to ascertain their numbers now.”
Another source said that after a fierce gunfight between the robbers and Nigerian Army soldiers, the bandits managed to escape with the abducted people.
“They were seriously engaged with the army troops but the way these bandits operate, they will divide themselves into two, one group will move with the kidnapped victims while the other will stay behind to protect the first group,” he said.
“The first group had left with the students while the second group engaged the army in a gun duel.”
In June, some students of the university protested the spate of abductions involving their schoolmates in Sabon-Gida and Damba.
Sabon-Gida village is a community opposite the main campus of the Federal University of Gusau that is about 20 km to the state capital, Gusau.
Efforts to reach the school authorities were not successful as the spokesperson for the school, Umar Usman, did not respond to several phone calls to him by our correspondent.
