We Are Afraid Of Going Back To School – Rescued Kankara Students

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Some of the rescued students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State have stated their fears over the security situation in the school.

The boys who were abducted by suspected bandits on Friday, December 11 State said they are afraid of going back to the school due to the porous security situation.

They also lamented the sufferings they went through in their kidnappers’ den.

In a video obtained by The PUNCH, one of them, Abubakar Salisu said they were kept in the cold and ate once in 48 hours. He said a majority of the students are not willing to return to the school where they were kidnapped.

He regretted that the location of the school made it difficult for security operatives to rescue them.

Salisu said they felt the efforts of security operatives attempting to rescue them in one of the locations that they were kept.

He said, “I was very happy (to be rescued). At the time we were there (kidnappers’ den), we were kept in the cold. They gave us only cassava to eat. “At night, we defecate and urinate on the same spot that we sleep. If we request to use the toilet, we were beaten.”

He said further “None of us is willing to go back there.

“But some will go if the government increases the number of security operatives guarding us, without that we are not going back.

“In terms of security, the school is too far from town. When they came to kidnap us, the army and police arrived late. They already gathered us parked us inside the forest before the army and police came.”

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