Kebbi Abduction: Not 25, Real Number Of Abducted Students Revealed

The Kebbi State Government on yesterday clarified the number of students that were taken by bandits at the Government Comprehensive Girls Secondary School Maga.

The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education Dr. Halimatu Muhammad Bande, while addressing journalists on the school abduction incident in Birnin Kebbi, said 26 students not 25 as reported in the media were taken by the bandits.

“Two of them, Salmat and Hauwa escaped from them. We now have 24 of them with the bandits,” she said.

She said the clarification became necessary because there have several misleading reports by the media on what happened at the school.

She said Governor Nasir Idris and federal government have put every measure in place and have deployed security personnel to secure the girls.

“Let us continue to pray for them. We don’t know where they are and what they are doing to the girls but God will bring them back to us safely,” she said.