The Presidency has claimed that only ten students were
abducted from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
It made the claim through the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
This is in contrast to the Governor of Katsina State, Aminu
Masari who disclosed on Sunday when he received a Federal Government delegation
led by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, .that “Based on the
available record we have, we are still searching for 333 students through
either the forest or their parents to ascertain the actual number that has been
kidnapped.”
However, the presidential spokesman was quoted by BBC Hausa Service, in a bulletin on Sunday, as saying only ten boys are with the bandits.
The BBC read, “The Government of Nigeria has said its
security forces have surrounded the location where gunmen have kept
schoolchildren abducted from a secondary school in Katsina State.
“Spokesman for the President, Mallam Garba Shehu told the
BBC only ten children were remaining in the hands of the gunmen according to
their colleagues who escaped from the gunmen.
“The number is below figures released by school authorities
at the beginning. Garba Shehu said the school children who escaped said 10 of
their friends were still with their abductors.”
While Nigerians are yet to come over the recent gruesome and
callous murder of not less than 43 agricultural workers in Borno State by the
Boko Haram insurgents, over 600 stidents were said to have been abducted by
bandits from their boarding school in Katsina on Friday.
It is also worthy of note that a good number of the Chibok
schoolgirls are yet to regain their freedom after many years and that Leah
Sharibu, the Dapchi schoolgirl, is still in captivity.
President Buhari is currently in Daura, Katsina State, where
he is on a week-long visit to his hometown but has yet to visit Kankara, a
nearby town where the schoolboys were taken away.
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