Gunmen kidnap school children, teachers in ekiti state

Gunmen have abducted six schoolchildren, three teachers and a bus driver in Emure while the school bus was conveying the children to Eporo-Ekit, in Ekiti State, an incident said to have occurred on Monday evening.

Penpushing reports that the abductors were said to have ambushed the school bus carrying the pupils from a private nursery school back home at about 5 p.m., while it was also learnt that the incident occurred at the same time bandits attacked a vehicle conveying three traditional rulers between Oke-Ako and Ipao Ekiti, in Ajoni Local Government Area of the state

The Governor of Ekiti State Biodun Oyebanji, has promised that the school pupils would be rescued unhurt, while as at the time of filing this report the Ekiti State Police Command was yet to make any official statement on the incident

Penpushing further reports that the Governor, however, urged residents to remain calm as efforts were underway to rescue the victims, describing the kidnapping of the pupils as callous and unacceptable, stressing that nothing would be spared in the efforts to rescue them.

The Governor on Monday in a statement, disclosed that security agencies in the state were already on the trail of the abductors and flush out the criminals from their hideouts, with a mandate to bring the pupils and their teachers back safely.

Penpushing also reports that Oyebanji encouraged residents to cooperate with security agencies, by making available relevant information to the authorities, as a way to uncover the alleged kidnappers and possible sponsors

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