Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Joshak Habila, has assured Lagosians that the six students kidnapped by gunmen from their school dormitory in Epe, Lagos, would be rescued within a few days.
Habila gave the assurance during the closing of one month training for police anti-bomb squad in Lagos State.
He said all other kidnap victims had been rescued before now, stressing that the students’ abduction, the second time in same school, will not be different from others.
“In the next few days you will hear good news about the students. The security of people is not only by the police, but by all. We have put the machinery in place to rescue them,” Habila assured.
Six students of the Senior Secondary School of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, in Epe, were kidnapped early Thursday.
The kidnappers involved in Thursday’s operation, according to police, were suspected to be members of a militant kidnap gang that had carried out several kidnappings, armed robbery and the killings of security agents in Lagos and Ogun states.
The students, all boys, were taken from their hostel and led out through the bush path to the abductors’ waiting boats, according to earlier media reports.
Four of the abducted students are in Senior Secondary School 1 while two others are in SSS2.
Four students and two staff members of the school were abducted in October last year.