SaharaReporters reported on March 7, 2024, that some terrorists stormed LGEA Primary School, Kuriga (1) on Thursday morning and kidnapped scores of pupils and teachers.
The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has called on the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government to secure the release of the students abducted by terrorists in Sokoto and Kaduna states.
SaharaReporters reported on March 7, 2024, that some terrorists stormed LGEA Primary School, Kuriga (1) on Thursday morning and kidnapped scores of pupils and teachers.
The incident which reportedly happened at about 8:20am immediately after the morning assembly, forced residents to scamper to safety as the hoodlums shot indiscriminately.
On March 9, it was also reported that bandits kidnapped an unspecified number of Tsangaya students at Gidan Bakuso in Gada local government area of Sokoto state.
The number of abducted students had since been revealed to be 15 pupils.
Reacting to the unfortunate incident, while inaugurating the WTO-ITC 2024 technical assistance programme for Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday, Okonjo-Iweala described the abduction as very sad.
“I am sad because I am here at a time when once more, hundreds of our school children and teachers have been abducted,” the former Nigeria's Finance and Coordinating Minister of Economy decried.
According to her, “As a mother, grandmother, educator, and someone for whom education is paramount to creating economic opportunities, I am sad.
“And with the representative of my brother, the national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, I hope we can be able to recover them soon in Kaduna and Sokoto.”