…AS BANDITS STRIKE IN ABUJA SURBUB
The Federal Government was on Monday, forced to shutdown the Federal Government College (FCG), Kwali, Abuja and evecuated the students of the college from their hostels as terrorists attacked the school’s neighborhood community.
The network gathered that gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded Sheda village, Kwali in the early hours of Sunday.
The bandits were said to have taken away a couple, Mr Sunday Odoma-Ojarume and Mrs Janet Odoma.
The Network gathered the situation prompted the school authority to alert parents to evacuate their children from the school.
Early in the morning on Monday, Parents stormed the school to move out their children and wards from the Unity College located at Sheda village, on the ever busy Abuja-Lokoja highway.
According to a parent, one Mrs Babep Peace, she came from Lagos to evacuate her two children after she received a call that the college management directed parents to evacuate their wards.
Mrs Peace explained that she received the call at about 4:pm on Sunday, a situation which she said prompted her to board a night bus from Lagos, to Abuja.
“It was at 4pm on Sunday when one of my daughters called me through her guardians’ phone that the management asked parents to rush down to evacuate their children because of threat by suspected bandits to attack the college,” she said.
According to the woman, though the school examination has been disrupted lt was better to take them home safely.
Mr Obaniyi Oluwatokpe, also speaking disçlosed that he lives in Kabba, Kogi state, and that on Sunday night, he also received a call from the college management about the closure of the school and decided to rush to the school for his kid.
According to him, he drove to the college under fear when he was told that bandits have threatened to attack the schoool.
Meanwhile, an SS II student of the college, Rebbeca Samuel, narrated how some bandits attacked Sheda village on Saturday night, a situation which she said caused panic.
“It was at about 12am on Saturday while we were sleeping inside the hostel that we suddenly heard gunshots which made the school management ask us to vacate the hostel,” she said.
It was gathered that official of the college and a member of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA), confirmed that the school management issued directives to the parents to immediately move their children from the school following the bandits’ attack on Sheda village.
“You know it is a fence that separates Sheda village from the school, and the attack by bandits on the village amid sporadic gunshots that Saturday, caused serious panic to both students and management,” he said.
