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The Katsina State Government has confirmed the rescue of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara area of the state.
This was disclosed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad via his Twitter handle.
According to Ahmad: “The abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara have been rescued, the Katsina State Government has confirmed the news. Alhamdulillah.”
Recall that Boko Haram had last week abducted about 600 students from GSSS in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.
A few days later, Boko Haram had claimed responsibility for the abduction.
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WHEN I read of the invasion of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, by armed men, it was a disturbing not just for me but the whole country. Governments at all levels must do all within their power to ensure that the lives of our children are safe.
It was not surprising when the national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) threatened to down tools describing the invasion as highly disturbing. The NUT Secretary General, Dr. Mike Ike Ene, stated that “in light of these recent developments, the Nigeria Union of Teachers may be compelled to down tools pending when it is safe for our members to teach and guide our pupils and students without fear of abduction by these faceless enemies of educational prosperity of the Nigerian nation.”
Boko Haram hired kidnappers: sources
NIGERIAN GANGS: Local gangster Awwalun Daudawa was a robber and cattle rustler before he turned to gunrunning arms from Libya, a security source said
AFP, KANKARA, Nigeria
Boko Haram recruited three local gangs in northwest Nigeria to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys on its behalf, security and local sources said on Wednesday.
The militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday last week that targeted a secondary school in the town of Kankara, in Katsina state.
However, sources said that the operation was carried out on Boko Haram’s orders by a notorious local gangster called Awwalun Daudawa.