Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.
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More than 300 schoolboys abducted by gunmen from their boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last Friday were handed over to government security agencies late Thursday night, Nigerian officials said, adding that they would become long-term hostages in a sense of relief and happiness in Africa’s most populous country. Jihadi terrorists.
Just after 8pm on Thursday night, the governor of Katsina state, Aminu Belo Masari, announced in a television interview that of 344 boys had been handed over to state officials in the forest of their neighboring town Zamfara, more than a hundred miles from their school. Katsina State.
The released hostages will be taken to Katsina for immediate medical attention and are expected to arrive around midnight, he said.
Other local officials said the boys would meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
The jihadist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the abduction, saying on Tuesday it had arrested Kankara Government Science Secondary School students for punishing them for “un-Islamic practices”.
Hours before the governor’s announcement on Thursday, Boko Haram released a video showing dozens of schoolboys. In a six-month granular video, the hostages said some of their classmates had died during their captivity and urged the government to negotiate their release.
Many of the details surrounding the abduction remain intrusive, including the exact calculation of how many schoolboys have been taken, in a remote agricultural area with poor communication.
Neither Mr. Masari nor the other governors of the state who applauded the presentation could provide details of the deal to secure their presentation.
Kishore Binta Umma and Maimuna Musa were abducted by Boko Haram in Madagali, Nigeria in 2016. They were forced into marriage and sent to die on a suicide mission. In this video, the girls tell the story of their existence. Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik for The Wall Street Journal (Originally published July 26, 2019)
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