 Akiti State Police Command has confirmed a kidnap of some school pupils and their teachers in Mure Akiti on Monday, assuring that efforts are on to get the children and their teachers rescued. Speaking with newsmen, the public relations officer Sandeha Butu said the pupils and their teachers with a bus driver were abducted while returning to Akiti. He said the police and other sister security agencies are being stepped up across the state with a view to flushing out criminal elements from their hideouts. Also we had a case of kidnaping that occurred around Mure in Nassim yesterday where some pupils were kidnapped alongside their teachers and a driver. About ten of them were kidnapped. I mean five pupils, about three teachers, one driver and a conductor. So we have deployed our search team, response team, our intelligence team, so that artists, we are assuring the good people of Akiti State that these school children will be brought back alive. They are going to be rescued in no distant time. We implore the people of Akiti State that anyone with credible information to concerning what happened, concerning the suspects, and other information that could be given to us, please approach us and let us know so that it will speed up our investigation. So you get notified about fresh news updates.