NIGERIA

How abducted students, staff were rescued after 207 days
The coordinator of Nigeria’s National Counter-Terrorism Centre, Adamu Laka, has narrated how 22 students and staff of Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, were abducted by terrorists last year and rescued by security agents 207 days after, writes Abubakar Ahmadu Maishanu for Premium Times.Laka, a major general, said the terrorists abducted 15 students and seven workers of the university in September from three off-campus hostels at Sabon Gida, one of the university’s hosting communities on the outskirts of Gusau, the state capital. The terrorists subsequently took the captives to an unknown location on motorbikes and on foot through a town in Tsafe LGA in Zamfara State.
Laka said a search and rescue operation was conducted by a combined team of law enforcement agencies and the abductees were subsequently released in three batches. “All the abductees were profiled at the National Counter-Terrorism Centre, while the Office of the National Security Adviser medical team examined them and administered minor treatments on the bruises sustained by three of the abductees,” Laka said.
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