Kidnapped Kaduna Pupil Shares
How He Escaped From Kidnappers
One of the kidnapped pupils from Kuriga, Chikun Local Government
Area of Kaduna State, Mustapha Abubakar, who luckily escaped has recounted his
ordeal in the hands of his abductors.
This was according to a report
by BBC Hausa Service published online on Monday, March 11, 2024.
According to Abubakar, the
kidnappers treated them like a ‘herd of cows’ grazing in the bush.
Recall that over 280 pupils and
teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA primary school at Kuriga,
Kaduna State were abducted by bandits on Thursday,
March 7, 2024.
The bandits reportedly invaded the Kuriga area of the Chikun
Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday, shooting at their victims
before taking away at least 280 of the pupils and teachers from both schools.
According
to report, the secondary school was
relocated to the primary school on account of the insecurity in the council.
Narrating his experience,
Abubakar said he escaped by craftily hiding in the bush while they were being
transported into the forest on foot by the bandits.
He said, “We trekked in the bush; sometimes we
crawled. We were so thirsty that some of the girls were becoming weak and
falling due to tiredness. The bandits were lifting them and putting some of
them on motorcycles.
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“We reached a big river, where we drank water and continued
trekking. There was a plane that hovered above us. That was when the bandits
ordered us to remove one of our clothes and lie down.
“The bandits themselves are
tired, they didn’t have anything to eat but they were
eating grass and rope in the forest, they didn’t give us anything to eat.
“While we were trekking, I
noticed a shrub that was brown in colour, like my trouser. I hid inside and
crawled like a snake. I was there until it was completely silent before I came
out and headed to the bush.”
He noted that he met an old man
who could hardly walk, so he could show him the way to the side of the road or
another town to get drinking water.
According to Abubakar, he
travelled a long distance until he later arrived at Gayan, a community from
where he finally escaped.
Meanwhile, Senator Uba Sani who
led senior government officials and heads of security agencies in the state to
the scene of the attack on Thursday evening, assured the community that those
abducted by the bloodthirsty bandits would return unhurt.
The governor said he had spoken to the National
Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu on the matter and that security operatives had
swung into action in search of the abducted pupils.
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