Local citizens however still insist that kids were kidnapped.
UPDATE: NSCDC confirms the incident, saying that an empty bus was seized by armed men as what is believed as an armed robbery. The bus belonged to the Vine Kiddies Academy. This information has been confirmed by Evans Ewurum, the deputy commandant general of NSCDC, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Nigeria Police Force explained the incident on its Facebook page saying that the bus was hijacked earlier today when the bus driver was cleaning it just by the school gates. The police is reportedly looking for both the vehicle and the hijackers.
Post by Nigeria Police Force.
The bus was supposedly hijacked when
it was just going to drop off students at the school premises in the beginning
of a school day.