Following directives from the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, residents of Oyo state have taken to the streets to demand the immediate release of dozens of school children and teachers who were kidnapped in the Oriire Local Government Area.
The national leadership of NUT had ordered all public primary and secondary school teachers across Oyo State to embark on an indefinite strike starting Monday, June 1, which is more than two weeks after heavily armed men launched a coordinated raid targeting three schools in the Ogbomoso area: Baptist Nursery and Primary School in Yawota, along with Community Grammar School and L.A. Primary School in Esiele.
The attackers who stormed the school on May 15 took away 39 students, some as young as two years old, and seven teachers, including Mrs. Rachael Alamu, the principal of Community High School, Esiele.
Already, a teacher among the kidnapped victims had been reported by this calous bandits.(Hanto Daily News)
