He also said repentant bandits held talks with their unrepentant counterparts and were able to secure the release of the schoolgirls.
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The governor, who received the girls at about 5am on Tuesday in Gusau, said the 279 girls were returned safely without paying any ransom
While the number of students recorded to have been taken away by the gunmen was put at 317, those freed as at press time were said to be 279
Matawalle said this on Sunday when 17 Emirs in the state paid him a sympathy visit over the abduction of 317 girls from the school on Friday
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Shehu, disclosed this in Gusau on Saturday while giving update on the ongoing efforts by the police to rescue the kidnapped victims.
Soyinka who lamented that the government and security agencies have failed Nigerians, said he did not know what else to recommend as panacea to the nation’s “abnormal times.”
In a statement issued in Gusau on Saturday, SCI’s Country Director, Mercy Gichuhi, said the NGO was horrified about the “unfortunate and unacceptable kidnap’’.
The youths, who called for the removal of the National Security Adviser, General Babagana Monguno (retd), said it was impossible for bandits to have attacked the school, which is located less than 100 metres to a military checkpoint and abduct over 300 schoolgirls successfully.
To ensure the success of the ongoing operation, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of two operational surveillance helicopters to Zamfara State.
Reacting to the incident on Friday, President Buhari said “this administration will not succumb to blackmail by bandits who target innocent school students in the expectations of huge ransom payments”.
Yaro made this known on Friday while speaking with journalists on Friday in Jangebe, Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that over 300 female boarding science secondary school students were abducted from Jangebe.