The Nigerian Army has confirmed that 333 students are missing from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina after bandits invaded the school on December 11, 2020.
Major General John Enenche, coordinator of Defence Media Operations, on Monday, December 14, 2020 corroborated the figure earlier released by Katsina state governor, Aminu Masari.
While appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Eneche said: “The principal reported that he had 839 in the boarding house; and as at the time they were abducted, shortly after that, some came back and it was about five hundred plus that did not return.
“As at 2 pm yesterday (Sunday), the students that could not be accounted for reduced to 333. Out of that 333, before I came into the studio, one escaped out of wherever they kept them.”
Eneche also gave an insight on how the students were moved from the school. According to the Defence Spokesperson, the abductors used motorcycles to ferry the schoolchildren into the bush from where some of the students escaped.
“That is their usual characteristics – those abductors.
“It is the same system; the same approach they used. There was no evidence, no information about them using other modes of transport,”he added.
