…Students, teachers and members of families missing
The gunmen after midnight around 1am on Wednesday, opened fire inside the school and abducted students and teachers. They took away students, teachers and members of their families. There are 600 students in the school.
Authorities are now making a head count to see how they can get the number of persons abducted. Insecurity has become a national embarrassment in Nigeria in the past 11 years but more so in the last 5 years with an equally seemingly compromised response from the state authorities.
There had earlier been a school invasion and abduction in a town called Kankara, in Kastina State of North West Nigeria, where over 300 students were abducted in December.
The North East of Nigeria is bedeviled by Boko Haram. Zamfara and Katsina States in North West are overrun by banditry, Niger State is in North Central Nigeria is being torn apart by bandits. Kagara is in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.
Security forces are said to be pursuing the gunmen with an aircraft as a way of finding a way to rescue the abductees.
Nigerians are tired of the ungovernable state of insecurity in the land. Many Nigerians have renewed the calls for restructuring and state policing. There is need now, more than ever before, for the geopolitical zones and states in Nigeria to have their own security agencies who are well armed, trained and motivated to defend their homeland.
