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Bandits, ignoring the presence of President Muhammad’s Buhari in Daura, Katsina state, have attacked the Government Science Secondary School in Ƙanƙara abducting a yet to be specified number of students said to be in the hundreds.
The school is said to have a student population of 800 but 200 of them in JSS 3 were said to have gone on vacation before the attack.
Hint of the attack first came into limelight when activist former Senator Shehu Sani tweeted about it in the morning today.
Kankara lies south of the state, about 197km from Daura.
The school principal, Malam Usman Abubakar, who confirmed the story said the bandits were armed with sophisticated weapons.
He said the attacked happened around 10.15 pm on Friday, and that the horrible operation that lasted about an hour.
Abubakar revealed that the bandits on arrival at the school entrance, broke the school gate, shot one of the policemen at the gate on the leg.
The other policeman escaped, while the injured policeman is now hospitalised.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the attack came less than six hours after President Muhammadu Buhari arrived his home state for a week-long private visit.
He last visited in December last year.
Masari shuts down boarding schools
Meanwhile, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has ordered for the immediate closure of all boarding secondary schools in the state.
The directive follows the abduction of an unspecified number of students of the Government Science Secondary School Kankara by bandits in the night on Friday.
The Governor spoke on Saturday morning when, accompanied by his Deputy Alhaji Mannir Yakubu and other government officials, he visited the state school, where he met with the school officials, some parents, traditional and religious leaders as well as security officials.
The Governor, who could not control his emotions , pleaded with the people to be patient and show restraint and understanding, assuring them that government will do every necessary things to ensure the release of all the abducted students. He said the already security officials, constituting the military, the police and the Department of State Security had swung into action and are on the trail of the abductors.
Governor Masari further assured that both governments at federal and state levels were doing their best to bring an end to banditry and other debilitating criminal activities in the state.
According to him, the government is very firm in its resolve to be ruthless in any engagement with the bandits.