4 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The authorities of the Nigerian state of Kaduna, located in the center of Nigeria, have reported on Tuesday that a dozen students were kidnapped on Monday from the Awon Government Secondary School, located in the town of Kachia.
Although the Kaduna Security and Home Affairs Commissioner, Samuel Aruwan, has confirmed the news, he has not offered further details, not even specifying whether the students were abducted from school premises or elsewhere, reports the ‘Daily Post ‘.
The news of the abduction of these ten students comes just a day after the Nigerian authorities confirmed on Monday that two students had been kidnapped on Sunday in an attack carried out by armed men against a university in the state of Zamfara.
Attacks in Nigeria, previously focused on the northeastern part of the country — where Boko Haram and its splinter, Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) operate — have spread in recent years to other parts of the north and northwest, making alarm bells are going off due to the possible expansion of these terrorist and criminal networks, many of which live off the kidnapping of students.
These groups of “bandits”, as they are usually referred to by the Nigerian government, are responsible for dozens of kidnappings and attacks in recent months, especially against educational centers and transport, with the aim of obtaining ransom payments.
