As late Dorathy Tirnom Yohanna, one of the Greenfield University students killed by bandits was laid to rest in Kaduna amid sorrow and tears on Wednesday, some of the students who escaped the abduction said they would have all been carted away.
Jesse Jakiri, one of the escaped students, is a 200 level International Relations of the University. Narrating his ordeal during the funeral service of Miss Yohanna held at the ECWA Goodnews Church, Narayi High cost, Kaduna, Zakiri said: “We hid ourselves on top of the wardrobe of our hostel to escape being kidnapped when the bandits stormed our School”.
He described the attack as a traumatic night for the students and the entire university community, stressing that: “the bandits shot sporadically to the air and went from one room to the other in search of students to carry away.
“It was around 8:30 PM, we were in the hostel when we heard gunshots. We then came out to see what was happening, only for us to see our porter dragging door with the bandits. That was when they shot him on the leg, he left the door and they went inside and shot him on the chest.
“We were there wondering what was happening, rushed into our room, locked the door and climbed the wardrobe to hide ourselves, about three of us. Meanwhile, there was this door that many students ran into, that was the one the bandits attacked, broke the door and picked some students.
“After the incident, we came out when we heard soldiers came in to our rescue, it was then we discovered that they broke into the girls hostel and went away with all the girls”, Jesse recalled and said “they would have gone with all of us too.”.
Lemuel Adamu, a 200 level student studying Cyber Security, also escaped the attack. Sharing his experience, he said himself alongside three of his friends had to hide themselves inside the wardrobe for almost an hour before they came out.
“The bandits came knocking on our door and asked us to open the door but we maintained silence and hide inside the wardrobe, three of us. After some persistence, they went away.” He narrated.
