Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has said that intelligence report showed that kidnappers are now collaborating with some elements of Boko Haram to abduct people for ransom, just hours after gunmen kidnaped six girls and two staff members from a boarding school in Kaduna.
El-Rufai who made this known while speaking with State House Correspondents after Juma’at prayers at the State House Mosque, explained that intelligence showed that schools in the state were the primary targets of the bandits.
He further said that the kidnappers have demanded for ransom but he declined to make public the amount mentioned.
El-Rufai explained that state government has made sufficient provisions to beef-up security in state schools, adding that the kidnappers of the students and teachers succeeded because the school was in a remote place. He assured that following the efforts of government with the security agencies, the students would soon be released.
