The Association of Nigeria Female Students (ANFS) has issued an urgent plea for the swift rescue of five female students who were abducted from the Federal University Dutsin-Ma Katsina on Wednesday.
Comrade Princess Omoniyi, the national President of the Association, in a statement, made the appeal on Thursday, admonishing the security agencies to take action “before it deteriorates further”.
“All security agencies, community leaders, student bodies and government at all levels should swing into action as a matter of urgency to re-unite the students with their respective families in no distant time,” the statement said.
“With a bitter heart, the Association of Nigeria Female Students … received the ugly news of the abduction of five of her colleagues who are students of Federal University Dutsin-Ma Katsina state on 4th October, 2023, at the wee hours of the day,” it read.
It also reveals that two campuses have been invaded in less than a month.
Matters have deteriorated to a point where “no student (male or female) feels safe on campus”, the ANFS statement declared, wondering how students can be expected to “read, learn and assimilate when their safety is not guaranteed”.
The association warned that if their colleagues were not released before Monday, October 9, they may be compelled to “permanently relocate the ANFS secretariat” to Dutsin-Ma, Katsina state.
