The Commanding Officer of the 21 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Godiya Monde, has said troops struggled to locate an isolated school in Kogi State where gunmen abducted four persons during an examination and only got there with the help of a community member.
He said by the time troops arrived at the scene, the attackers had already fled, leaving examination papers littered across the classrooms.
Monde disclosed this on Thursday while addressing newsmen at the scene of the attack in Olowa, a community in the Dekina Local Government Area of the state.
The officer said the school, tagged a “miracle centre” for external candidates sitting the Literature in English paper, was situated in a remote part of the community, a factor that slowed the response of troops to the distress call.
He said, “The issue is that this school is definitely isolated, and yeah, it’s actually tagged as a miracle centre for the students. Ten students were brought here for the Literature in English exams, and around 1600 hours, we got the call that the school was attacked.
