Nigeria, 279 of the 317 girls kidnapped by an armed commando released on Friday. President: “Ransom paid, dangerous decision”



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I’m free again after three days in the hands of his kidnappers 279 young girls that friday had been kidnaped in a school a Jangebe, in the governorate of Zamfara, in the northwest of the Nigeria, by an armed commando that had attacked some security checkpoints and broke into the university dormitories. I’m 38 young women no news yet, given that 317 students were missing in the bombing last Friday.

The state governor announced the release of the girls, Beautiful Matawalle, that in theAfp He said: “I am pleased to announce that the girls have been released. They just arrived at the government building and I’m healthy“However, the figures provided by the authorities are still unclear, given that initially there were 317 kidnapped students. According to Governor Matawalle, there may still be 38 girls to be released.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, still greeted with “great joy” on Twitter releasing the girls, hinting that it was paid a ransom, a circumstance instead denied by Matawalle: “The governors – he wrote – must end the policy of rewarding bandits with money and vehicles. Such policies can be counterproductive with disastrous consequences. States and local governments must do their part by improving school safety. “

The news of his kidnapping had spread on Friday thanks to a complaint from one of the teachers who spoke of a group of militiamen who had raided and taken up arms on the school premises. At that time, the authorities, after the first controls, had spoken of 317 missing girls. So no more news until yesterday, when the Nigerian media announced the release of the young women. However, information denied by Yusuf Idris |, the state governor’s media relations officer, explaining that the girls were still with their abductors and that authorities were doing everything possible to ensure their return home. Return made official this morning.

However, there is no news about the approx. 300 students of a children’s school kidnapped in December in the northwestern state of Katsina. Last week, two groups kidnapped in February in the western central state of Niger: there are about twenty people who travel to participate in a wedding and 44 between adults and children kidnapped in a school in Kagara.



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