By JADA LEMOS
Staff Writer
Hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted in the early hours on Friday 26, 2021. Armed men raided a state-run school in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria. The schoolgirls were taken from their living spaces by gunmen who raided the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, a government official with insight on the incident stated.
“They came on about 20 motorcycles and they marched the abducted girls into the forest,” an unnamed source said. “The bandits arrived around 1:45 a.m. and they operated ‘til about 3 a.m.”
315 students were taken, out of the 500 students who normally attended the boarding school. The other students managed to escape and return to their living quarters.
The parents of the schoolgirls were interviewed, saying their daughters were seized in their pajamas. “My daughter is among those who were taken away because I saw her things left behind,” Jummai Haruna, mother of Hafsat Abubakar said.
“I believe she was taken away wearing only her sleeping clothes because I found her hijab and her school uniform. I miss her so much already. Nobody has told me anything about the whereabouts of my daughter. She has always been with me. Her father died when I was still pregnant with her. Now I don’t know what to do,” Haruna says.