In a statement signed by Mansurat Amuda-kannike, Press Secretary, MOTE. It affirms that the Kwara State Government has called for calm on the recent Kidnap of four Students of Kwara origin, from Bayero University, Kano and Federal University, Dutse in Jigawa State.

The four kidnapped students are AbdulRasaq Kaothar and AbdulRasaq Shakirat of Bayero University, Kano as well as Suleiman Muhyideen Temitope and Idris Mubarak of Federal University, Jigawa State.

The state Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Senior Ibrahim Sulyman Esq, made the call in Ilorin, even as he hinted that security agents have been contacted while appropriate measures are currently being put in place to secure the release of the students.

Sulyman assured parents and guardians of the kidnapped students that government is already on top of the situation.

He further assured all concerned citizens of the state that the government will try everything within it’s power to ensure the release of the four students unhurt and reunited with their families. The security agents are already combing the road between Kaduna and Niger states in search of the kidnapped students and we believe they will soon be free.