Following the abduction of students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the National Assembly will continue to engage the Executive arm of government until appropriate action is taken to address the growing insecurity in many parts of the country.
He noted that the lawmakers are worried that nothing has been done to save the country from a worsening security problem.
Recall that the Senate had recently advised President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the country’s service chiefs without further delay, a call the Presidency ignored.
Lawan stated this in his concluding remark on a motion considered during plenary on Tuesday into the recent kidnapping of students.
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Governor Bello Masari of Katsina State, on Wednesday, responded to the question on why President Muhammadu Buhari failed to visit the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara area of the state.
Masari said those willing to know why Buhari failed to visit the school should ask the president themselves.
Recall that Boko Haram had abducted some students from the GSSS last week Friday.
Confirming the abduction, leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, had said the students were kidnapped to discourage western education.
Shekau had also said the abduction was to encourage Islam.
Following the incident, Buhari was berated by Nigerians for failing to visit the scene of the incident which happened while he was in the state.
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Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria’s northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region.
More than 330 students remain missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school Friday night, although scores of others managed to escape.
The government and the attackers are negotiating the fate of the boys, according to Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
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