Kaduna State Governor, Nasir
El-Rufai, on Thursday said when 29 students of the Federal College of Forestry
Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, were abducted, the plan was to attack and
kill the bandits even if it meant some students would die in the process.
El-Rufai added that Kaduna is
currently at war and such would only be considered as collateral damage, a
price he would be willing to pay instead of paying ransom.
The governor, however, said
before this could be done, the bandits hurriedly changed location which led to
the students spending over a month in captivity.
The governor said this on
Thursday during a webinar organized by the Africa Leadership Group, claiming
that insecurity in Kaduna was not as bad as Niger, Katsina and Zamfara but the
media only focused attention on his state because it fitted into their
narrative of ethnic clashes.
According to him, in Katsina and
Niger states, entire villages were sacked by bandits but nothing of such
happened in Kaduna.
