Eleven students of Islamiyya school located at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have been reportedly released by the gunmen who abducted them on Sunday.
Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Mary Noel-Berje, disclosed this in a press statement.
Ms. Noel-Berje said that the released children little children who did not have the strength to walk as fast as the kidnappers wanted.
They were thus compelled to release them.
She said that Governor Abubakar Sani Bello had expressed shock and was saddened by the recent reports of abduction of innocent people by bandits in several communities across three Local Government Areas of Rafi, Wushishi, and Bida.
Governor Bello said it was outrageous that banditry in the state was escalating.
He was quoted to have reiterated his emergency call on the Federal Government for prompt intervention.
“The situation has reached crisis level, in fact, it’s a war situation that we have to confront without further delay,” the governor said.
He had further stated that the state government was still searching and conducting a house-to-house headcount to ascertain the exact number of children abducted at Tegina.
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