The Kogi State Government has announced that a portion of the students from Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Okene, who were abducted by gunmen last Thursday, have been successfully rescued.
Although the exact number of students rescued remains undisclosed, the government credited the operation’s success to the formidable display of firepower by security forces and local vigilantes.
Kingsley Fanwo, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, revealed this development in a statement released on Sunday.
The statement read, “This is to inform the general public that some of the students abducted by gunmen at the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, have been rescued safely by local hunters and other security agents.
“Local vigilante men and security agents engaged the kidnappers in a fierce shootout and the kidnappers succumbed to superior firepower and escaped with gun wounds, leaving the kidnapped students who also ran in different directions to avoid being caught up in the fire exchange.
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