Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has admitted the abduction of 315 school children from a Catholic school in Niger State.
The governor made this known on Friday during the inauguration of commissioners, elected local government chairmen and their deputies, where he requested a minute of silence for two parents of the abducted children who reportedly died from shock.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in the Northern Region and the FCT, Rev. John Hayab, in November revealed that a parent died of a heart attack following the abduction of his three children at St Mary’s Catholic School in Niger State.
He granted an interview on TVC where he said that the bandits only came to the school but did not abduct anyone.
According to him, the bandits only shot sporadically into the air to scare the children before taking their leave, while the children fled and hid in the bush.
Terrorists invaded St Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools, Papiri, in Agwara Local Government Area on November 21 2025, taking away 315 pupils, students and a teacher to an unknown destination in the forest.
Fifty of the pupils escaped from the terrorists after two days, while 100 were rescued by the Federal Government and security agencies after nearly two weeks.
The governor prayed for the safe return of the remaining 115 abductees and pledged to give political appointments to indigenes of Papiri to ensure that residents of the communities were carried along in the political scheme of things in the state.
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