The Nigeria Police Command in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria has confirmed the attack on a private university, Greenfield University on Tuesday night and abducted some students.
The attack occurred at 8.30pm at the university located on the Kaduna-Abuja highway.
The Police Command Public Relations Officer, Mr. Mohammed Jalige, told journalists on Wednesday in Kaduna that some of the students were abducted, but he could not give the number of students kidnapped.
Jalige disclosed that some security operatives have been deployed to the area for search and rescue operation.
According to local media reports, the latest incident is the first major attack that bandits will launch on communities around the Kaduna-Abuja Highway since 300 female soldiers were deployed to the general area in January this year.
The reports added that the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, has also confirmed the attack on the university established three years ago.
It will be recalled that Kaduna State has recently been facing series of attacks by bandits, including assaults on schools.
In March this year, the gunmen attacked the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka in the Igabi Local Government Area of the state and kidnapped 39 students.
Although 10 students had been released and the remaining students have not been released.
The Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Nasir El-Rufai, has insisted that his government would not negotiate nor pay ransom to kidnappers despite pleas by the parents of the abducted students.
“We will not give them any money and they will not make any profit from Kaduna; anyone that comes to Kaduna will not get a penny from the state government, except he will get a bullet instead,” the governor said in a recent press interview.
However, some other northern states of Niger and Zamfara had at different occasions experienced attacks at their secondary schools by bandits and the abduction of students, forcing the states to close down their boarding schools.
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