- The state Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha, who made the disclosure to journalists in Lokoja, said the students were killed by kidnappers who abducted them.
Two students of Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, have been killed, the police in Kogi State have disclosed.
The state Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha, who made the disclosure to journalists in Lokoja, said the students were killed by kidnappers who abducted them.
He described the students’ killing by their abductors as unfortunate.
The CP did not however give the details of the killing, but said that the security operatives were on the trail of the abductors to bring them to book.
Recall that Kidnappers invaded the school around 9.00 p m., on May 9 while the students were studying in their classes ahead of their examinations slated for May 13 and abducted some students, after shooting indiscriminately into the air.
Although security agencies rescued 21 of the abducted students with the help of hunters, some were still with the abductors.
Meanwhile, a non-governmental organisation, Education For All had decried the killing of two students in spite of ongoing talks with the parents to pay ransom for their release.
The Publicity Secretary of the NGO, Nasir Ibrahim, said this in a statement in Lokoja.
Ibrahim described the killing as the height of callousness, adding that the aim of the kidnappers was to scare young people from going to school and described such as unfortunate.
He gave the names of the deceased students as James Michael Anajuwe, a 100 level Information Technology student and Musa Hussein, a 100 level Software Engineering student.
Ibrahim said: “They were allegedly killed at the kidnappers’ hideout in Kwara. We are broken and shattered that despite the efforts of the parents, NGOs and the state government, we still lost these promising students.”
He commiserated with the families of the victims, urging the NSA and the Federal Ministry of Education to reinvigorate efforts on the Safe School Initiative.
“The painful loss of the two students should provoke the office of the National Security Adviser to work with the Federal Ministry of Education to ensure the safety of our schools across the country. It is unacceptable to lose children whose only offence was embracing education. Our nation must rise to the occasion to arrest the rising insecurity across the country,” he said