Gunmen abducted more students a day after Nigeria’s government vowed to use the full force of its military to end deteriorating insecurity in the country.
An unspecified number of female students were forcibly taken from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna state in the northern part of the country, local television station Channels reported on its website Friday.
An investigation is ongoing to determine the exact number of students taken away, the station reported, citing Mohammed Jalige, the spokesman of the state police unit, who also confirmed the incident took place early Friday morning. This is the fifth major mass abduction of students since December, a pattern that has put pressure on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power in 2015 promising to tackle insecurity in Africa’s most populous country.
“The government will not allow itself to be blackmailed by any group or any individual who thinks he can hide under the surface and use proxies to deal a fatal blow on innocent people,” Babagana Monguno, Buhari’s national security adviser, said Thursday at a briefing in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
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