668 Students, Not 333 Abducted From Katsina School – Report

Six hundred and sixty-eight students of the Government Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State are still missing contrary to the three hundred and three figure given by Governor Aminu Bello Masari, Daily Trust has reported.

The newspaper’s reports follows the study of the school’s register and record of those who have been accounted for after the Friday attack on the school by yet to be identified bandits.

The newspaper reported on Monday that at the time of the incident, the school had 1,074 students in both its Junior and Senior Secondary sections in session.

As a school source revealed to the paper, “in the junior section, there are six classes, comprising JSS 1A, which has 58 students, 1B, which has 62 students and 1C, which has 64 students; JSS 2A has 74 students, 2B has 79 students and 2C has 75 students.

“As for the senior section, we have seven classes, which include SS1A, 97; 1B, 108; 1C, 106 and 1D, 118. While in SS2, we have 2A, 74; 2B, 79 and 2C, 80, giving a total of 1074 students.”

It was further observed that the number of those abducted could have been more but for the fact that both SS3 and JSS3 students had completed their exams and were not in school during the attack.

Daily Trust further reported that 270 students were rescued from the school on the night of the attack and with the number of those who returned from the bush the following night or those who were reported to have gone home by their parents, the number of those found rose to 406 as on Sunday morning.

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