Gunmen have abducted an unspecified number of female students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
It was learnt that the gunmen who attacked the school on Friday morning left the male students behind.
Kaduna State commissioner for internal security and home affairs Samuel Aruwan has confirmed the incident.
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The college is located close to the Kaduna International Airport where gunmen recently abducted some workers of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria.
Kaduna police spokesman Muhammad Jalige said the attack happened at about 3am on Friday.
“Yes, students were kidnapped but we don’t have the exact number of students kidnapped,” he told NAN.
Jalige added that security forces were working to trace the kidnappers and rescue the students.
However, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has called on religious leaders in the state to end the killings in Southern Kaduna.
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El-Rufai believes their reckless statements is the root of the crisis.
The Kaduna State Governor stated this on Saturday, when the National Chairman of Jama’atul Izalatul Bid’ah wa Iqamatul Sunnah, Sheikh Abdullahi Lau and other Izala leaders paid him a visit.
The Governor noted that the Izala leaders came to be briefed on the security situation in the state and that “they received briefings from the Commissioner of Internal Security as well as the Deputy Governor.”
He said, “We also solicited their support and prayers to see the end of this crisis, because we are of the strong view that at the bottom of this crisis are the reckless statements of some religious leaders.”
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“If religious leaders decide firmly that people should live in peace and preach that consistently, it will lead to peaceful coexistence in our state.”
El-Rufai also said that the root of the crisis in southern Kaduna “lies in differences in religion and ethnicity.”
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