President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight at the release of those students and workers who were abducted from the Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State.
The victims were released in the early hours of Saturday by their captors, who had threatened to starve them to death if their demand for ransom was not met.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, expressed the President’s delight in a statement titled, ‘President Buhari welcomes release of Kagara abducted students’.
“President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday welcomed the release of the abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State.
“The President commended the nation’s security and intelligence agencies and the government of Niger State for their responses in securing the release.
“’We are happy they have been released’ said President Buhari, who also greatly sympathized with the staff and the students, their parents, and friends on this ordeal.”
The release comes two days after the President said he would not grant amnesty to the bandits, and added that he had ordered the military chiefs to launch an attack on the bandits nationwide.
“President Buhari once again condemned the school abductions, with the latest one at the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State, and directed all security and intelligence agencies in the country to hunt down the culprits and bring them to justice,” the statement added.Bandits on Friday abducted 317 students from the girls’ school, the latest in the string of such abductions targeting schools.