Governor Aminu Masari Thursday night confirmed the release
of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara.
The governor said the boys were at Tsafe, Zamfara State, and
would be transported to Kankara on Friday.
According to him, the release of the boys was facilitated by
the leadership of MACABAN/Miyetti Allah.
The governor’s Special Adviser on Security, Mallam Ibrahim
Katsina, also confirmed the development.
He said on Thursday night that “Allihamdulillahi,
the boys have been rescued and are now at Tsafe, Zamfara State. But, we shall
be moving them to Kankara tomorrow (Friday).”
We didn’t pay any ransom
However, Masari in an interview with DWTV Hausa at 10pm on Thursday, said no ransom was paid before the boys were released.
When asked if ransom
was paid before the release of the boys, he said, “We did not pay ransom to the
kidnappers, it was purely negotiation.”
Explaning how the boys were released, “One hour ago,
Nigerian soldiers and government officials that were involved in the
negotiation for the release of the kidnapped schoolboys have told us that the
whole school children have been released, 344 of them.
“Those involved in
the negotiation include my adviser, some top military and police operatives,
members of Miyetti Allah; (they) where all involved in the negotiation.”
He also said those who kidnapped the boys were not Boko
Haram.“They are bandits who kidnapped the schoolboys, not Boko Haram.”
Recall that the gunmen suspected to be bandits abducted the
students last Friday night from their school’s hostel in a Gestapo-like action.
Police confirm release of Kankara schoolchildren
The Zamfara State Police
Commissioner, Usman Nagogo, said the boys would be handed over to Katsina state
Government as soon as investigation into their health condition was concluded.
Nagogo maintained that all the schoolchildren were looking
healthy, adding that none of them complained of any ailment.
“The boys are healthy but looking very tired; we will hand
them over to their state as soon as possible.”
The CP, however, did not mention whether any ransom was paid
before their release.
Earlier, before the students’ release from captivity on
Thursday, the Boko Haram sect had claimed that it released a video showing the
kidnapped students of GSS, Kankara in Katsina.
The video showing some students inside a forest was released
barely 24 hours after the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, insisted
that the terrorist group was not responsible for the abduction of over 344
students of GSS Kankara.
But one of the terrorists, who spoke in the background, was
heard saying “This is to show the Governor of Katsina State that the boys are
in good health. Look at them, look at them; by merely looking at them, you will
see that they are in good health.”
The over six-minute long video was released by the sect to
ostensibly dismiss claims by Masari and the Nigerian Army that it (Boko Haram)
was not responsible for the mass abduction.
However, following prompting from some of the terrorists, a
boy in the video with several of his captured colleagues in the background, who
spoke intermittently in Hausa and passable English language said, “Please
dissolve any kind of school, excluding Islamiyah.
“We are pleading with the authorities to please recall the
soldiers and the airplanes; they cannot do anything to these people (Boko Haram
members); please.”
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