By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has again chided the All Progressives Congress, APC, for what it called the ruling party’s insensitivity to the plight of parents of the about 600 students taken away from Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina state on Friday.
This is even as the PDP slammed the ruling party for allegedly encouraging President Muhammadu Buhari to visit his cattle ranch instead of Kankara, where the tragedy struck.
In a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said “by not impressing it on President Buhari to cut short his unnecessary holiday and make efforts to rescue the abducted students, the APC has again shown that it is a party of ‘political bandits’, which has no iota of concern for the wellbeing of Nigerians.”
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Students missing after gunmen attack school
Hassan Abdul-Bashir was in bed in his dorm in Kankara, Nigeria when the gunshots started on Friday night. The 13-year-old was ordered outside, where gunmen were ushering everyone towards the school s gates. That s when he decided to run. He took cover under a faulty school bus, then ran to the school s fence and hid there.
He escaped. But an unknown number of students from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara, including Abdul-Bashir s cousin and friend, remain missing after gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles attacked the school on Friday. They commanded the crowd like a herdsman herd the sheep, Abdul-Bashir told CNN on Saturday. He said the gunmen were asking students for money, ransacking their lockers and taking some of their belongings. They shot the policeman guarding our school. I saw them driving many students. There could (be) as much as 200 students, but I am not sure, he said.
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Updated December 14, 2020
PHOTO USED TO ILLUSTRATE THE STORY: Some protesters stormed the streets of Katsina demanding the immediate release of abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State on December 13, 2020.
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has threatened to hit the streets in protest if the government fails to rescue the missing students following the terrorist attack on students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State.
The Northwest Coordinator of the Coalition, Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi in a press briefing held in the state capital threatened that thousands of protesters will be mobilised if the school pupils are not rescued as soon as possible.
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