Breaking: Bandits In Zamfara Make Mockery Of Sheik Gumi Peace Deal Claims, Abduct 300 School Girls

Bandits earlier today abducted about 300 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara local government area of Zamfara state. This is according to reports from the BBC Hausa Service.

This makes a mockery of Sheik Gumi’s claims of success with bandits in Sokoto and Zamfara states.

Gumi had claimed that he had achieved success and the bandits in that axis had surrendered and laid down their arms.

This is coming less than 10 days after terrorists killed a student,  abducted 27 students and three staff of Government Science college, Kagara, Niger state. 12 relatives of the staff and students were also kidnapped in the process

A resident in Kawaye village, who identified himself as Sadi Kawaye said that his daughters, Mansura and Sakina were among those abducted.

“I’m on my to Jangebe now to see the situation myself. I was told they invaded the school around 1:00am,” he said.

The spokesman of the state police command command SP Muhammad Shehu didn’t deny the abduction but pleaded for time to ascertain the true situation

“Give me some times, I can’t say anything now,” he said