The Zamfara Police Command issued a statement on Sunday to reassure the public that security forces are actively working to rescue the remaining kidnapped students of the Federal University Gusau from the kidnappers.
This comes in response to the recent abduction of a significant number of students, including both males and females, from the Federal University Gusau by bandits.
According to the statement, “On 22 Sept. at about 0250hrs, suspected bandits with sophisticated weapons, invaded rented students’ hostels in Sabongida community near the university.
“Unfortunately, the bandits kidnapped an unspecified number of students to an unknown destination.
“The search and rescue operations by the command, in collaboration with the security operatives yielded a positive result of rescuing 7 out of the kidnapped victims.
“The rescued victims have been reunited with the management of the university”.
The PPRO appealed to the general public to remain calm, as “the command in collaboration with other security agencies are making efforts to rescue the remaining students from the kidnappers”.
Meanwhile, the state Police Commissioner, Muhammad Dalijan, visited the scene of the incident and put some measures in place to avoid the reoccurrence of the incident.
