Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Saturday said
some bandits terrorizing the state are currently targeting his seven-year-old
son, Abubakar Al-Sadiq El-Rufai.
In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Governor El-Rufai said he
secretly withdrew his son from Kaduna Capital school following intelligence
that the bandits were planning to attack the school to kidnap his son.
Reports on Friday indicated that the governor secretly withdrew
the boy from one of northern Nigeria’s oldest public schools where he was
enrolled in 2020.
“My son and my daughter are registered in the school because
his sister turned six and we had to register her.
“But we have had to temporarily withdraw them for the
security of the school because we got intercepts from at least two groups that
are planning to attack the school to kidnap my son,” he said.
Following the incessant abduction of school children in the
state by armed bandits, the governor vowed not to converse with the assailants.
According to him, even if his son is kidnapped, he would
rather pray for him to make heaven than paying ransom.
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If all parents take away their children and wards, what will become of the school.
ReplyDeleteIs better the governor's child is there alongside other Kaduna and Nigeria citizens, so that security in and around the school wil be intensified.