The Zamfara State Police Commissioner,Abutu Yaro,has confirmed the abduction of 317 students from Governmentt Girls Secondary School,Jangebe in Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Mr Abutu said the police command is interfacing with other security agencies to rescue the students.
The students were abducted in the early hours of Friday by the gunmen
Confirming the abduction to newsmen on the outskirts of Jangebe ,Abutu said” The situation is an established fact ,students were kidnapped and we are on the trail of kidnappers that’s why you find us in the fringes of the forest. It is part of our locational effort.and It is part of our condoning effort in order to trace the kidnappers and retrieve the students “
Abutu who said a number of 317 students of the school were presented to him as being abducted by the principal, urged aggrieved parents, and residents to allow the security forces to do the needful.
The girls were reportedly abducted by a splinter group of the bandits operating at different sections of the Zamfara forest.
Some residents who spoke to newsmen said the bandits stormed the area in their hundreds on motorcycles and shot sporadically before taking the children away,
However,60 students were said to be free as they reportedly hid from the rampaging gunmen.
The abduction comes a few hours after the state governor,Matawalle sacked Special Advisers and Directors- General and created 3 new ministries in what he termed as reorganising for speedy service delivery.
Matawalle only last week, informed Nigerians where the abducted Kagara students and others were sighted.
The governor had also said it loud and clear that negotiating with bandits was the best for peace and good governance is now being hunted by the same bandits who he claimed could be pacified or treated with kid gloves .
The abduction of the Jangebe girls is a sober reminder of that of the Chibok girls.
The difference is that Zamfara being mainly an Islamic state, would most likely have all kidnapped girls as moslems ,and unlike the Chibok girls, might have a reprieve since their abductors who are also moslems would not have the excuse of forcing Islam on them or marry them off.
This is becoming a striving business for these deranged bandits terrorists. They are creating a situation where Sheik Gumi their Representative will inter play between them and government to achieving a hidden agenda. They are pushing the government and her security agencies too far. The new terrorist is Sheik Gumi.