The directive is to enable security agencies to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment of all public secondary schools in the state.
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The News Agency of Nigeria recalls the 27 students , three staff and 12 family members of the school were released by their captors in the early hours of Saturday.
The party said this in a statement by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary of its Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee.
Students, staff members and their relatives were kidnapped when gunmen attacked the school on February 17.
It was learnt that the attacks were in Madaka, Karaku, Sambuga and Yakila which are all in Kagara district.
The students who arrived in Minna at about 10am were taken to the NSDC suites with tight security.
One of the abductors stated this in an audio recording obtained by The PUNCH on Wednesday from a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this while speaking on a radio programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
Abdullahi Wuse, Speaker of the House, disclosed this when he led other members to commiserate with the state governor on the recent abduction of school students and passengers at the Government House Minna, on Saturday.
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello says the state government is at the final stage of negotiation for the release of the victims in a state live broadcast in Minna on Friday.
Speaking through a release from his Media Office on Thursday, Obi explained that any attack on students is an attack on education, which in turn falls back on national development, as education remains a critical contributor to national development.
No fewer than 27 were kidnapped in the night raid on the boarding school, reports say.
The police spokesperson, Frank Mba, made this known in a statement titled, ‘Kagara abductions: We are committed to the safe rescue of all abductees, says IGP’, on Thursday.
Bello made the confirmation at a news conference shortly after an emergency meeting with heads of security agencies in Minna on Wednesday.
Bello said this following the abduction of some students and staff of Government Science College in Kangara, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State in the early hours of Wednesday.
A statement by the President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, said the president had also dispatched to Minna, Niger, a team of security chiefs to coordinate the rescue operation.