Some of the students of Greenfield University Kaduna, who escaped being abducted by bandits during an invasion of the institution on April 21, have narrated how they escaped being kidnapped
They spoke at the funeral of Dorathy Yohanna, who was abducted but later killed by the kidnappers.
A 200-level International Relations student, Jesse Jakiri, at the funeral, which held at the ECWA Goodnews Church, Narayi High Cost, Kaduna said: “We hid ourselves on top of the wardrobe of our hostel to avoid being kidnapped when the bandits stormed our school.”
Jakiri said the attack was traumatic for students and the university community.
According to him: “The bandits shot sporadically to the air and went from one room to the other in search of students to carry away.
“Around 8:30pm, we were in the hostel when we heard gunshots. We then came out to see what was happening only for us to see our porter dragging (struggling for control of) the door with the bandits.
“That was when they shot him on the leg and they followed him inside and shot him again on the chest.
“We rushed into our rooms, locked the door and climbed the wardrobe to hide ourselves.
“Meanwhile, there was this door that many students ran into; unfortunately, it was the door the bandits attacked.
“They broke the door and picked some students.
“After the incident, we came out when we heard soldiers came in to our rescue. It was then we discovered that they broke into the girls’ hostel and went away with all the girls. They would have gone with all of us too.”
Lemuel Adamu, a 200 level student of Cyber Security, who also escaped the attack, said he and three of his friends had to hide inside the wardrobe for almost an hour before they came out.
He said: “The bandits came knocking on our door and asked us to open the door but we maintained silence and hid inside the wardrobe, three of us. After some persistence, they went away.”
Ge said the bandits operated for between 45 minutes and one hour before the military came to the rescue.
The kidnappers have resorted to killing the kidnapped students in installments.
They killed three in the first instance, including Dorathy, whose funeral ceremony the students attended, followed by another two.
They have threatened to kill more if ransom was not paid. They had demanded the School authorities to pay a ransom of N800 million for the release of the kidnapped students.
Credit:theconclaveng
