Garba Shehu, Senior Special
Assistant on Media, and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has said that
people who claimed the kidnap of over 300 boys from Government Science
Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina was staged are ridiculous and heartless.
” I think it is just being
ridiculous because how can anybody do this? then people must be heartless,”
Shehu said when asked for his reaction to claims that the kidnap was staged on
Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily.
“These young people were fed once
on raw potato and drips of water for seven days, see how much suffering they
were subjected to. I don’t think any decent human being would subject innocent
young people to this kind of thing. No, it is ridiculous, nobody should say
this, please,” he said.
He also said that repentant
bandits were involved in the rescue of the abducted boys.
According to Shehu, the repentant
bandits were used by the Zamfara State Government to gain access to those that
were in the forest.
“The Governor of Zamfara State,
who had a policy of engagement with the bandits leading to the surrender and
renouncement of bandits, used repentant bandits to gain access to those that
were in the forest and they had them (schoolboys) released. All the leading
actors in Zamfara and Katsina States said no ransom was paid,” he said.
Shehu noted that no ransom was
paid to secure the release of the boys and that the rescue operation was a
joint effort of both the army, police, and other security agencies.
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Military will soon remind u that repentant bandits where not involved just like the other group M A were nor invilved
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