Nigerian Military frees over 300 students abducted by Boko Haram ANI | Updated: Dec 18, 2020 13:09 IST
Abuja [Nigeria], December 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Over 300 boys who were abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed, Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari announced.
On Tuesday the jihadist organization claimed responsibility for last week s attack on the Kankara Government Science Secondary School and the kidnappings of hundreds of its students. The group s leader Abubakar Shekau said the abductions were made in the name of Islam and against the Western education. The national security forces were tasked to rescue the kidnapped students.
Nigerian Military frees over 300 abducted students
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BREAKING: Masari receives 344 rescued Kankara Students
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At first glance, the October killings of protesters by security forces in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, seem to have little in common with the November Boko Haram massacre of at least 43 farmers in Nigeria’s northeast, or the December 11 abduction of hundreds of school students in Katsina State. With vastly different circumstances, motivations, and perpetrators and separated by hundreds of miles all three episodes could easily be recorded as just further tragic installments in Nigeria’s long history of violence. However, these incidents underscore the wider failure of the state to provide security for its citizens, only deepening the trust deficit felt by Nigerians.