The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria family has been thrown into confusion with the scary news that about 17 students of the institution were reportedly abducted by bandits along the now notorious Kaduna-Abuja expressway on Sunday
According to a report confirmed by Abusites, the university’s local newspaper, the 300L students of the Department of French were travelling to Lagos for their language immersion program at the Nigerian French Language Village (NFLV) when the incident took place.
A student of NFLV, Precious Owunna, broke the kidnapping news after using her twitter handle to draw public attention to the situation.
Precious tweeted, “Hi guys, I don’t know how else to say this, we need you prayers please my friends, my course mate were kidnapped @ Kaduna-Abuja road.”
Precious, a UNN student running her program in Badagry, told Abusites that a student was shot while attempting to escape while a woman was left behind because she had a baby.
Abusites gathered that some victims of the Sunday’s kidnapping include: Okafor Grace, Kyenpia Bulus, Dickson Afolabi, and Jemimah Badmus.
Others are: Aliyu. S. Adamu, Simnom Praise, Ziya Asoji, Elizabeth John, Victor Agbo and Precious Mutum.
This is the second time the city of Zaria has been hit by this sort of attack in the space of three days.
An online platform, the News Digest had also reported the abduction of two children and a lecturer of Electrical and Electronics at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria on Saturday.
