The NGO reported that more than 400 people, most of them women and children, were kidnapped last week by alleged members of the Boko Haram group in the country. The kidnappings take place nearly a decade after jihadists kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok; Some remain missing to this day
On Friday, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deployed the country's forces to rescue more than 250 children kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the northwest of the country, in what is already one of the largest mass kidnappings in recent years in Nigeria. .
Kaduna state authorities confirmed the kidnapping of more than two hundred children from Korega school, but they were not immediately able to reveal the exact number of victims. According to local residents, at least one person was killed during Thursday's attack.
According to Sani Abdullah, a teacher at Korega School in Chikun district, the institution’s workers were able to rescue several children when armed men arrived at the scene. The same source indicates that the attackers kidnapped 187 students from one building and 100 from another building. According to three other local residents, between 200 and 280 children and teachers were kidnapped.
The attack occurred “very early in the morning”, when the first shots were heard. “Before we knew it, they were collecting children,” Musa Muhammad says. “We are begging the government, we are all begging them to help us achieve security.”
This is the second kidnapping within a week in the country, as armed criminal gangs continue to attack homes and schools in various locations and on highways, to kidnap children and adults and then demand large sums of money in exchange for their release. . A week ago, an attack on a camp for displaced people in Borno State led to the mass kidnapping of an unknown number of people.
According to Amnesty International in a report released on Saturday, more than 400 people, most of them women and children, were kidnapped by alleged members of the Boko Haram jihadist organization in Borno State last week.
In a statement issued on Friday, President Tinubu said he received “information from security commanders about two incidents,” saying he was “confident that the victims will be rescued.”
“Nothing more than this is acceptable to me and the families of the kidnapped citizens. “Justice will be decisively served,” said the president, who has promised since his election to make Nigeria safer and ensure more foreign investment in the country.
The two kidnappings occurred 10 years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok, also in Borno State, in April 2014, a case that received international media attention. Nearly a decade later, some of these students are still missing.
