Two kidnapped college students of the Confluence College of Science and Expertise (CUSTECH), Osara, Kogi State have been killed by kidnappers amid ransom negotiations, Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bethrand Onuoha, has confirmed.
CP Onuoha disclosed this whereas talking with newsmen in Lokoja, the state’s capital on Sunday, the place he described the killing of the scholars, James Michael Anajuwe, a 100-level Data Expertise pupil and Musa Hussein, a 100-level Software program Engineering pupil of the College as unlucky.
The Kogi State police chief nonetheless assured that the safety operatives have been doing all the things doable to deliver the perpetrators to e-book.
LEADERSHIP recollects that the abductors attacked the college when the scholars have been studying of their courses for examinations at about 9pm on Might 9, 2024, shoooting sporadically earlier than abducting a number of the college students.
Whereas safety companies with the help of native hunters had retrieved 21 out of the kidnapped college students, a couple of college students are nonetheless reported to be within the abductors’ custody.
The Publicity Secretary a non-governmental organisation, Training For All (E4A), Malam Nasir Ibrahim condemned the killing of the 2 college students regardless of ongoing ransom negotiations with their dad and mom.
Malam Ibrahim in an announcement in Lokoja, maintained that the intent of the abductors was to discourage younger individuals from going to high school, including that this can be a wake-up name towards attackers of instructional establishments.
He mentioned, “It’s unhappy that the criminals killed two of the scholars who weren’t among the many 21 rescued via the operation coordinated by the Kogi Authorities.
“Though the circumstances of their kidnap and being traced to a forest in Kwara State by safety companies are but to be ascertained. That is unhappy, callous and a name for collective motion towards attackers of instructional establishments.
“We’re conscious that oldsters of the scholars have been negotiating with the abductors which slowed down the offensive on the abductors by safety companies in order to not endanger the lives of the captives.
“We have been very hopeful and optimistic that they are going to be launched on the finish of the negotiations.
“Data reaching us reveals that the scholars allegedly killed have been James Michael Anajuwe, a 100-level Data Expertise pupil and Musa Hussein, a 100-level Software program Engineering pupil of the College.
“They have been allegedly killed on the kidnappers’ hideout in Kwara.”
Ibrahim urged the Kogi State Authorities to accomplice with its Kwara State counterpart in taking decisive motion towards the abductors who have been reported to be hiding in a forest within the state.