Two of the Abia State University students who were abducted on Wednesday evening have reportedly escaped from their abductors, the State’s Commissioner for Information, John Kalu, has said.
According to earlier reports, the students were abducted inside a commercial vehicle along a highway in Okigwe, Imo State.
“Two of the students – two girls – escaped. One escaped from inside the jungle where they took them to, while the other escaped at the point of interception, where they were taken. We have heard from the girl that escaped at the point of interception”, he added.
The commissioner said the abductors have made contact with the parents of the female student who is in their custody.
He said, “I have spoken to the parents of the girl: I have spoken to the fiancée of the girl, we are doing everything to ensure her release”.
Kalu further told newsmen yesterday that only one student was being held captive by the abductors, from what he said was the information available to the Abia State government.
Recall that some gunmen, suspected to be members of the IPOB, on Wednesday night kidnapped an unknown number of students of Abia State University, Uturu.
It was also gathered that the hoodlums whisked the students into the forest shortly after they ambushed them while journeying on a bus along Okigwe-Uturu Road.
From Borno to Yobe, Zamfara, Katsina, Niger, Kaduna, and now Abia Nigeria has become a hotbed of kidnappers of late as the criminals target schools.
