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UNICEF has urged President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to quickly and safely free young children bandits have kidnapped on a farm in Katsina between the towns of Kamfanin Mailafiya and Kurmin Doka.
The kidnapping was called "reprehensible" by the UN agency.
In a statement released on Friday, Cristian Munduate, the UNICEF representative in Nigeria, emphasised that kidnapping kids "whether at home, at school, on the farm, or anyplace else, is repulsive."
The UNICEF representative emphasised that "children should never be the target of violence, especially by anyone who should be safeguarding them" and urged the authorities to "take appropriate action to recover the stolen children and reconnect them with their families without delay."
She added, “UNICEF also calls on the authorities to rescue other persons reported to have been kidnapped on the farm at the same time the children were abducted.”
Ms Munduate stressed that the incident “is yet an indication of the danger children face by acts perpetrated by people who should protect them.”
The statement added UNICEF “is concerned about the report of the abduction of no fewer than 21 children at a farm in Mairuwa community,” Faskari local government area.
A resident, who said his son was kidnapped told Reuters 30 children, including 26 girls and four boys, were abducted by bandits.