The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the President made this position known while reacting to the release of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State in his country home, Daura.
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The President had on Thursday night welcomed the release of the kidnapped students, describing their safe return as a big relief to their families, the entire country and to the international community
The students had slept in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, before proceeding to Katsina in the morning
According to the newspaper, the Governor spoke in an exclusive interview with it
Masari, who gave the confirmation on Thursday in Katsina, said the students released were 344
Members of the group carried placards with various inscriptions, among which are ‘Rebuild the North and not destroy it’; and ‘Nobody is safe in the North; End banditry now and Bring back our boys’.
Masari, who spoke with BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday, said he was in possession of information that the students are in Zamfara State.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operation, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, stated this while giving update on the military operations across the country on Wednesday in Abuja.
President Buhari is at present holidaying in Katsina State, where the students were abducted on the day of his arrival on December 11, 2020.
The group said this in a four-minute audio message on Tuesday.
President Buhari is from Katsina State and had only hours earlier arrived in the state before the kidnap of the boys from their school.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the latest briefing came from Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, who informed the President of the steady progress being recorded toward rescuing the students
The DG of the body of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, said this in an article he dedicated to the abducted students, some of who had escaped from their abductors, with the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, saying those yet to be accounted for were 333.
Masari said this when he spoke with newsmen on Saturday
Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 elections, made his position known in a statement he personally signed.
The opposition party said it was perplexing that gunmen attacked the school and abducted the students on Friday, the same day the Presidearrived nt in Katsina for a week-long visit.
The president made the remarks in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday.
The governor gave the directive in a statement by his Director-General on Media, Abdu Labaran, on Saturday in Katsina.
The principal of the school, Usman Abubakar who confirmed the development to ait.live in a phone call said, the bandits arrived at the school at around 10.15 pm Friday night and operated for about one hour.
The repentant bandits in Katsina State have released additional 30 kidnapped victims, following the dialogue initiated by the state government with their leaders.