Kebbi Abduction: I Will Storm Fore With Rescue Team, I Was Elected To Take Such Risk – Gov Bagudu

On Saturday, Kebbi State Governor Atiku Bagudu promised to lead the rescue mission for instructors and students kidnapped from the Federal Government College (FGC), Birnin Yauri, in the state’s Ngaski Local Government Area.

When local hunters paid him a visit, Bagudu, who is also the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, addressed.

On Thursday in the state, armed men suspected of being bandits abducted students and teachers from the Federal Government College in Birnin-Yauri.

During a gunfight between soldiers and the abductors, one of the students abducted from the school was killed.

Five of the abducted children and two teachers have been rescued, according to the Nigerian Army.

Also paying a solidarity and sympathy visit to Gov. Bagudu were the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and his Jigawa State counterpart, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar.

Bagudu stated that he will enlist the help of other governors and stakeholders in the ongoing hunt for the school’s abducted pupils and personnel.
According to him, he will discuss with his colleagues and security agencies in this direction, so as not to jeorpardise the ongoing commendable operations to rescue the abducted students and staff.

He said: “But, we will go out there and like I promised, the day we will move out, I will not be in the office because we will join you in the field.”

The Kebbi State Governor said that this would be done regardless of the consequences

Bagudu argued that: “It is not weapons that win wars, but it is the will that bad people cannot triumph and we will show that, we have enough willpower.

“President Muhammadu Buhari and the security agencies have been doing the best they could with limited resources.

“But, we also need to mobilize, kit ourselves and take on these bandits. Our various scriptures as Muslims and Christians allow us to put our lives at risk in defence of our honour, property and our faiths.

“In what the bandits are doing, they have challenged all of us, so, we can’t let them.”

Bagudu asked the hunters to go back and fully mobilise, pending when he gets the necessary clearance from the security agencies, adding, “we will meet in the field.”

The governor maintained that governors were not sworn in only to sit down in the office and work.

He stated that they are aware that one day, they would be required to lead in the field, even though they are not military or police personnel.

He said that if hundreds of thousands of people can be mobilised during campaigns, same should be done now to join the search party.

“What happened in Birnin Yauri should be the last straw. We should follow these bandits wherever they are and take them on.”NAN quoted him as saying.