President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched a team of top security chiefs to Niger State to co-ordinate the rescue of staff and students abducted early Wednesday by gunmen.
Gunmen were said to have invaded the Government Science College, Kagara, Rafi local government area and abducted some staff and students whose number could not be ascertained yet.
The school was said to house about 1000 students.
Dressed in military uniform, they were said to have overpowered security guards before taking abducting the students.
However, in its reaction to the development, Buhari, while announcing that some top security chiefs had been dispatched to the state, said he had directed the Armed Forces and Police, to ensure immediate and safe return of all the captives.
He was quoted as having told the security chiefs to meet with state officials, community leaders, as well as parents and staff of the College.
In a statement signed by his Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the president assured of the support of his administration to the Armed Forces in their brave struggle against terrorism and banditry and urged them to do all that can be done to bring an end to the saga, and avoid such cowardly attacks on schools in the future.
“Our prayers are with families of the victims of this attack,” said the president as he condemned as cowardly the attack on innocent school children.
