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Hundreds of students, who were abducted on December 11 in an armed attack on a school in Nigeria, in the northwestern state of Katsina, were released. The attack was claimed by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. The released students, more than 300, had disappeared after gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School in Kankara last Friday.
Katsina state governor Aminu Bello Masari said 344 children were released and abducted in the Rugu forest in neighboring Zamfara state. Masari, in a television interview on state television NO, He also said that “most” of the students abducted on December 11 in Katsina would be released. Al jazeera He wrote that at the moment it is not possible to verify the news of the release and the number of students released, that is, how many are compared to those kidnapped last Friday.
Alhamdu lillah. We are excited to announce the rescue of the #Kankara of his kidnappers. 344 are now with the security agencies and will be transferred to Katsina tonight. They will be given proper medical care and attention before being reunited with their families. pic.twitter.com/Ru0eJhdh2x
– Aminu Bello Masari (@GovernorMasari) December 17, 2020
Masari explained that Nigerian security forces had closed off the area where the children were being held and had been ordered not to shoot. An aide to the governor told the news agency AFP that the 344 released students are in the state of Zamfara where doctors are checking their physical conditions. They should go back to their families on Friday.
In Nigeria, the kidnapping of students has sparked concern and anger over the insecurity and violence in the north of the country. President Muhammadu Buhari wrote on Twitter: “Our administration is fully aware of our responsibility to protect the lives and property of all Nigerians. I ask Nigerians to be patient with us as we face the challenges of security, the economy, and corruption. We will not give up. “
Our administration is fully aware of the responsibility we have to protect the life and property of all Nigerians. I ask Nigerians to be patient and fair with us as we face the challenges of security, the economy, and corruption. We will not give in.
– Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) December 17, 2020
Last Thursday, dozens of protesters marched through the streets of the city of Katsina with the #BringBackOurBoys banner, a slogan reminiscent of the campaign launched in 2014 to bring home more than 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in the northeastern city of Chibok. .
The march in Katsina was prompted by an appeal from the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), a civil rights association that deals with social problems in northern Nigeria, which activists say was abandoned at the mercy of “bandits” . , kidnappers, armed robbers, rapists and a variety of hardened criminals ”. Criminal gangs operating in the northwest of the country killed more than 1,100 people in the first half of 2020 alone, according to Amnesty International.
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