Panic In Delta: Parents Rush To Schools As Suspected Bandits Target Aragba-Orogun Primary School

Fear swept through Aragba-Orogun community in Ughelli North, Delta State on Thursday, July 10, 2026, after suspected kidnappers were reportedly sighted inside a primary school, attempting to abduct a pupil.

According to sources, the men were spotted on the school premises and allegedly tried to seize one of the pupils. They fled when they failed. Within minutes, teachers, pupils and workers bolted out of the school as panic spread across the community.

“I had to run and carry my child,” said a parent who rushed to the school. “Na God go help us. Insecurity na our trouble now and nobody go hear say kidnappers enter school and parents go sleep.”

A security source at the Orogun Police Division confirmed operatives were deployed immediately after a distress call. A surveillance team, supported by local vigilantes, was combing nearby forests for the suspects as of Thursday evening. The search was still ongoing at press time.

The incident has reopened old wounds for Delta parents. Just weeks ago, a similar scare in Ibusa and Ogwashi-Uku caused mass withdrawals after a rumour that kidnappers had entered a primary school. Schools were shut, attendance crashed, and at Adiagbo Secondary School in Ogwashi-Uku, fewer than 30 students showed up the next day.

Police later dismissed that earlier alarm as false. SP Bright Edafe said no abduction took place and blamed panic for injuries after a woman and her children fell into a gutter while rushing to school.

But for parents in Aragba-Orogun, the fear is real. Many kept their children home on Thursday, unsure if it was safe to return on Friday.