The Imo State Police Command has dismissed reports alleging that students of Government Girls Secondary School, Owerri, were kidnapped by suspected herdsmen.
The command described the report, which circulated widely on social media, as false, misleading, and capable of causing unnecessary panic among residents.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Henry Okoye, clarified that no school was attacked anywhere in the Owerri metropolis or any part of Imo State.
According to him, the early dismissal of students from government secondary schools in Owerri was purely administrative and had no connection with any security threat.
He explained that the arrangement was made to enable teachers and school management staff to attend a scheduled meeting at the state headquarters of the Nigerian Union of Teachers.
Okoye stated that all students and staff of the school were safe and accounted for, adding that academic activities were continuing
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