Kidnap of lecturers: UNIMAID vows to return to Chad Basin for oil search

The University of Maiduguri is set to send its team of experts back to the Chad Basin to resume oil exploration despite last year’s abduction of three of its lecturers in the area by Boko Haram.

One of them was killed during the attack.

The three survivors were released only last week following negotiations between the federal government and the terror sect.

Leading the three lecturers and the management team of the university on a visit to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday , the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Njodi, said the freed lecturers and the entire university community were ready to remobilize for oil exploration in the Chad Basin.

Prof Njodi said despite the harrowing experience of the men in the captivity of the insurgents, the university was focused on carrying through the exploration programme in the inland sedimentary basins.

Njodi expressed profound gratitude to the Management of NNPC led by Dr. Baru, saying the university community would not forget the support the corporation extended to the families of the victims at their hours of need.

He sought more succour for the affected lectures, stressing that they passed through unimaginable trauma in the hands of their abductees.

Responding, Baru called for a minute silence for the soul of the victim who died from injuries he sustained during the attack, saying NNPC was totally in support of the university.

The NNPC GMD thanked the academics for their visit, saying NNPC was ready to mobilize to the Chad Basin for further exploration activities noting that the corporation would work rigorously with the university and all relevant security agencies to fortify the environment for smooth exploration activities.

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