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The school is about 15 kilometres from the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna.
Mohammed Jalige, police spokesman in the state, confirmed the incident to TheCable, and said efforts are ongoing to rescue the students.
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“The gunmen stormed the school around 3 am, and abducted a couple of the students. The police have deployed its operatives in the bush to trace them,” he said.
The attack is the latest in a series of the abduction of students and pupils by bandits operating across northern Nigeria.
In 2021, there have been two cases of the
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TheCable found that more than 1,100 children have been taken hostage from their schools in such attacks in the last seven years.
On April 14, 2014, 276 Nigerian female students of the Chibok Girls Secondary School were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists. It was a very disturbing moment for Nigeria and the rest of the world. Most of the abducted girls were Christians.
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A former Chairman of Transparency International Nigeria and ex-Chief of Army Operations, Training and Plans, Major General Ishola Williams (retd.), said the job of the military was not to go after bandits.
Rather, he said fight against bandits was the duty of the Mobile Police – the paramilitary arm of the Nigeria Police Force designated to take over operations of major crisis where conventional police units cannot cope.
“It’s not the job of the military to run after criminals. The military was created to run after insurgents. It is wrong to be using the military in cases of banditry,” Williams told