Admin l Monday, April 26, 2021
CHIKUN, Kaduna, Nigeria – Nigerians are angry and wailing, following reports that bandits who kidnapped students from Greenfield University, a private university in Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna have gone ahead to kill two among the students they have held captive, bringing to 5 students of the school so far killed.
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in the state, Samuel Aruwan made the revelation today in statement. According to him, two more bodies of the abducted students were recovered by security agencies and have been evacuated to a mortuary, while the university has been notified of the development.
This latest development, he said brings the total number of students abducted from of Greenfield University and killed by the bandits to five. Lagos week, dead bodies of three students were found by security operatives at a Kwanan Bature village located along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.
The students of Greenfield University were kidnapped from the school last Tuesday. Meanwhile parents of the students are calling on Nigerians to support them with generous donation in their quest to pay ransom of about N900 million demanded by the kidnappers.
The parents who spoke via video were practically weeping as they made the call, following the decision of the Kaduna State Government not to pay ransom for any kidnapping so as not to encourage kidnapping in the state.
Meanwhile, the social media is abuzz with reactions of Nigerians calling on Nigerians to support the parents in their quest to rescue their children, saying the only crime the students committed was going to school.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of the three of the students kidnapped from Greenfield University, Kaduna State.
In a statement, Mr. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President described the students as bright youngsters who were cut down by evil people in their prime.
“My thoughts are with their families in this time of grief. May their souls rest in peace,” said the President. He extended his condolences and that of the Federal Government to the relatives, associates of the murdered students and the Kaduna State government.
On the recurring incidents of kidnappings and killings in Kaduna State in particular, the President condemned them as “barbaric terror attacks,” and described as “unfortunate the tenor of some political and religious leaders that seem to further incite and stoke the pain and anguish of mourning families who are forced to confront these tragedies. Addressing this scourge, requires great show of empathy and coming together as a society to squarely confront these elements and the danger it poses to our democracy and peaceful life in the country.”
He gave strong assurances that those who think that profits can be made, either from money paid as ransom or in politics, “will suffer with equal measure of recompense under the full weight of the law for their wickedness and brutality.”
“Banditry, kidnapping and the politics of murders will be fought with all the resources available to our country,” declared the President.
