The Kano State Road and Traffic Agency, known as KAROTA, said its patrol officers responded to a midnight distress call from Aisha Shehu Government Junior Secondary School, where intruders had broken into the school’s computer room and removed solar panels, computers and other accessories.
Authorities say they intercepted more than N80 million worth of information technology equipment allegedly stolen from a public school in the city’s Fagge district.
According to a statement from KAROTA’s spokesman, Abubakar Ibrahim, the suspects believed to number about 10 entered the building through the roof, subdued the security guards on duty and tied them up before making off with the equipment.
The school is one of several in Kano benefiting from the World Bank–funded Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) program, which provides technology resources aimed at improving digital literacy among young women.
“Upon receiving the distress call shortly after 2 a.m., our men mobilized and stormed the scene,” KAROTA’s managing director, Faisal Mahmud, said in the statement.
“When the thieves saw the patrol vehicles approaching, they abandoned the items and fled,” he added.
(Nairametrics)
