Some Uniben students and lecturers were today, allegedly abducted by suspected herdsmen.
According to reports monitored on Dockaysworld, an online news media, about 3 lecturers and 12 students of the department of Geology of the university were waylaid as they were rounding up a field trip at about 5:00pm this afternoon, 3rd of March, 2020.
The 300 level students and their lecturers had gone on a field project at a hill in Igarra, Edo State.
Luckily, one of the students escaped and is reported to have put a call through to his friends to narrate the incident.
According to the yet to be identified student,
”We were at the top of the hill about rounding up today’s field trip when some men with guns came from behind and told us to lie down.
“I and some other students quickly ran down from the hill only to meet other members of the gang waiting for us.
“They also told us to lie down, I immediately gave them the money with me, they told us to wait were we laid and they climbed up to meet their members at the top of the hill. That was when I ran for my life.
“They rounded up about 3 of our lecturers and the students who were up the hill and took them away.
”Currently about 12 of our students and 3 lecturers are missing after the raid”
Unibensoil, an Instagram handle of students of the university however, confirms the incident saying,
“Alleged herdsmen kidnaps some UNIBEN students and lecturers on field trip…. Remember them in your prayers..” #unibensoil
University of Benin Alumni and current students communities have been thrown into panic as the abductors are yet to make any demands:
