Ahmad Sorondinki in Kano
Students unions took to the streets of Kano City yesterday in a peaceful protest over rampant cases of abduction of female students in universities in some northern states.
The protesting students who matched along BUK Road in the metropolis carried different placards with inscriptions “Arewa Mu Farka,” meaning northerners wake up.
The students who were believed to be mostly from the Bayero University Kano (BUK), demanded the immediate release of female students kidnapped by armed bandits from Federal University Gusau (FUGUS), about three months ago, as well as other females students seized from Federal University, Dutsinma (FUDMA) and recently from Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State.
Mr. Sharfuddeen Bature, who led the protest, told journalists That “we have been on the matter for long. It has been eighty days now since the abduction took place. We have ministers in our region – in Zamfara.
“We have NSA from our region. We need these girls back. Their parents are in serious condition. We are not going to stop doing this until they bring back our girls.”
However, the protesters also condemned the recent drone attack on Biri Community in Kaduna State, which killed more than 100 civilians last week.
