To protest the kidnapping of five students from the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, hundreds of students have stopped the Gusau-Kaduna route.

Last Friday night, five of the school's students were kidnapped by bandits. Outraged, the students blocked the road, leaving several motorists stuck for many hours.

Many of the students sat on the major road and demanded that the proper authorities act immediately to address the security issue in the college, making efforts by the security officers to disperse them ineffective.

Professor Muazu Abubakar, the institution's vice-chancellor, who was present at the scene of the incident, pleaded with the protesting students to let cars drive across the road, but they ignored him.

Although Professor Muazu reassured the students that the school would make measures to provide proper security, the students insisted that they would not leave.

Hundreds of vehicles were jammed onto the road at the time this report was filed, and students were yelling that the government had failed.

Musa Shehu, a student, told newsmen that many students had been abducted in the past but that nothing had been done to free them.

“He said, “A lot of students have been kidnapped from this institution but no positive action is taken to rescue them.

“There are some students currently in bandits camp and the authorities are not making any move to rescue them”.