Abuja: There has been a case of kidnapping of school children in Nigeria. Unidentified gunmen on Friday kidnapped 317 school girls from Jangebe town in northwestern Nigeria. This is the second such incident in a week to recover the ransom from the government in this African country.
Police said, “The gunmen have kidnapped 317 girls from Government Girls Science Secondary School in Jangebe. To save them, the police of Zamfara province is conducting a joint operation with the army. Officials said cases of kidnapping children in the country have increased. This is being done to recover huge amount from the government. However, the government refuses to give any ransom in such cases.
Zamfara’s information commissioner, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, said that the assailants stormed in firing sporadically during the late night raid. They came with vehicles and moved the students, they also moved some on foot. Last week, unidentified gunmen kidnapped 42 people including 27 students, and killed one pupil, in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central state of Niger. The hostages are yet to be released. In December, dozens of gunmen abducted 344 schoolboys from the town of Kankara in northwest Katsina state. They were freed after six days.
In northwestern Nigeria, terrorist organization Boko Haram is considered to be the dominant.