Oyedepo’ Faith Academy in Kaduna praises God as soldiers foil attack by gunmen on school

There was joy at the Faith Academy in Kaduna following the foiling of an attack by gunmen on the school.

Soldiers, on Monday, foiled the attempt by gunmen to attack and kidnap students of the Academy, a secondary school owned by Living Faith Church Worldwide, founded by Bishop David Oyedpo.

The school is located  in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State, a stone’s thrown from a boarding school, Bethel Secondary School, where over 100 students were reportedly abducted by gunmen in an attack on Monday morning.

About 26 students have reportedly escaped from the bandits who kidnapped them.

A report by the Daily Trust said that while the gunmen abducted students at Bethel School, the attack on Faith Academy was foiled by the soldiers.

The report said that the gunmen had launched coordinated attacks on both Bethel secondary school and Faith Academy in the early hours of Monday.

A security agent confirmed that the gunmen got on premises of the Faith Academy through the back fence around 1am but were repelled by soldiers, with assistance from the school security team.

A parent, whose son attends the school, said that the school management had last week instructed all students to go home, except SS3 students who were preparing for final year exams.

She said adequate provision had been made to move the SS3 students to Barnawa in Kaduna south local government area where they were expected to continue with their studies.

She commended security agents for their timely intervention, saying her son and others who were in the hostel during the attack were safe and had been evacuated from the school premises.

When contacted, the Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, said he could not confirm it but security agents were busy thwarting attacks by bandits throughout the night.