Three students of the Greenfield University in Kaduna State who were abducted by bandits have been killed by their abductors.
The students were among those that were abducted by bandits from the private university located along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on Tuesday night.
the Kaduna State Commissioner for internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirming the development, said the remains of three students were found on Friday in Kwanan Bature village, a location close to the university and have been evacuated to a mortuary.
The armed bandits, on Tuesday night, abducted 23 students of the institution located at Kasarami village off Kaduna-Abuja Road in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State.
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Eyewitnesses said the gunmen stormed the university and started shooting sporadically, before taking some of the students away.
The locals said that the university with about forty students population does not have enough security on the ground, despite being located in one of the epicenters of kidnapping, a situation which they believe made it easier for the bandits to gain easy access into the institution.
Kaduna has been facing series of attacks by bandits including assaults on schools.
The Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka in the Igabi Local Government Area of the state was on March 11, attacked with 39 students abducted.
Governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, has, however, condemned the killing of the three students, describing it as sheer wickedness, inhumanity and an outright desecration of human lives by vile entities.
According to him, the armed bandits represented the worst of humankind and must be fought at all cost for the violent wickedness they represent.
The governor, while while appealing to Nigerians to come together against the forces challenging national security and the very existence of the Nigerian State, further said that evil would not triumph over God-given humanity.
El-Rufai, on behalf of the Government and the people of Kaduna State, sent deep condolences and empathy to the students’ families and the university community, just as he prayed for the repose of their souls.