By Gift Daboer and Vivian Abah
Five university of Jos students were kidnapped at Bauchi Ring Road on the 7th of February 2021 between the hours of 10 pm to 10:30 pm.
The kidnappers forced their way into the homes of students by forcefully opening gates and burgling doors.
Three girls alongside two other guys from separate apartments were taken.
According to one of the girls (name withheld), she said they were led to the hills around Bauchi Ring Road in the hands of one of the kidnappers while the others went on to kidnap more students.
The guys were able to overpower the kidnapper, disarm him and escape with the girls.
An eye witness, Gideon Joshua, a University of Jos student, narrated that he and his friends had to hide in an open ceiling ion his room to avoid been taken away. He also added that earlier on two other students were kidnapped and a ransom was demandsed from their parents.
The kidnappers released them after the ransom was paid.
He expressed his fears stating that the student area in Bauchi Ring Road is no longer safe for students to live in.
In a related development, some unknown persons, suspected to be kidnappers, came out armed to attack the Village Hostel students at about 11:30pm.
Fortunately for the students, some of them were awake and alerted other students who immediately came out in their numbers to defend themselves.
An eye witness said “the security where on ground but where helpless because they had no arms. However fencing the hostel premises is not an enough guarantee that such an attack will stop. The students in village hostel are calling on the attention of the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sabastine Maimako to provide the security personnel weapons to enable them repel subsequent attacks on the students knowing fully well that the lives of the students are very important. By so doing, the University of Jos will retain its glory and will be the dream of many students to come and study. This will create and increase the good image and standard of the Institution not only to Nigerian citizens but the world at large.
