Suspected gunmen abduct four students, school principal, NECO ad hoc staff in Kogi

Gunmen attacked Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, successful Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi Atate connected Tuesday evening and abducted 4 students, the schoolhouse main and a National Examinations Council (NECO) advertisement hoc unit subordinate portion candidates were penning their NECO examination.

The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the incidental successful a connection issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Saliu Oyiza Afusat, connected Wednesday, saying that the incidental occurred astatine astir 5:25 p.m. connected Tuesday.

A combined squad of information operatives, according to the statement, swiftly launched a search-and-rescue cognition aft the onslaught and is presently pursuing the kidnappers to guarantee they are brought to look the wrath of the law.

She said, “One of the abducted students has already been rescued, portion efforts are ongoing to unafraid the merchandise of the remaining victims and apprehension those liable for the attack.”

The spokesperson explained that the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, CP Naziru Bello Kankarofi, alongside the Brigade Commander and the Kogi State Security Adviser to the Governor, was connected his mode to the country to transportation retired an on-the-spot appraisal of the situation.

Residents person been assured by the bid that information agencies are committed to ensuring the harmless rescue of the remaining victims and reconstruct normalcy successful the area,...