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Kankara schoolboys and Buhari’s victory jig
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By Ikechukwu Amaechi
I AM yet to meet a Nigerian who did not heave a sigh of relief when the news broke on Sunday that the boys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, were on their way home after spending six days with terrorists in the wild. By Nigerian standards, it was a miracle. Six years after a similar fate befell 276 girls abducted on April 14, 2014 by Boko Haram terrorists from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, 112 of them are still in captivity.
Out of the 110 girls kidnapped by the same jihadists on February 19, 2018 from a secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State, only 104 were released after the government paid huge ransom. While five of them are believed to have died in captivity, Leah Sharibu, the only Christian in the group, remains unaccounted for. On May 14, 2020, she clocked 17, marking her third consecutive birthday in cap
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•Faults allegations FG stage-managed kidnapping
By Dike Onwuamaeze
The presidency yesterday shed more light on how the Katsina and Zamfara State governments, in collaboration with the federal government, were able to secure the release of 344 pupils of Government Science Secondary School Kankara, a week after their abduction.
Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, said on a breakfast television programme that repentant bandits assisted in securing the release of the pupils.
He also dismissed claims that the federal government stage-managed the abduction of the pupils to create the impression that the Buhari administration was up to the task of protecting lives and property of Nigerians.