Suspected terrorists invade Confluence University in Kogi state, kidnap undergraduates

Bandits on Thursday, May 9, 2024, invaded the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Okene in Kogi, and abducted some students.

An eyewitness account indicated that the bandits swooped on the university around 9 p.m. while the students were reading for their upcoming exams.

The source said that the bandits came in through the bush, went into three lecture halls, and began to shoot into the air to scare the students.

“They trapped the students inside the halls and started taking them; the school was thrown into total confusion as fear-stricken students in other halls scurried to safety, scampering in various directions.

By the time local security guards and the conventional security men at the gate engaged the bandits, they had already succeeded in abducting some students.

But the efforts minimized the damage as the attackers didn’t go beyond the first three halls,” the source said.