Defence Media Operations, John Enenche.
The Nigerian Army on Monday gave more insight on the
abduction of schoolchildren in Kankara Local Government Area of
Katsina State.
The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Major General John
Enenche explained that the bandits moved the abducted students from
their hostels via motorcycles.
“They were moved on the motorcycles they (gunmen) brought and
after a short distance, some of them continued with the
motorcycles, others dismounted,” Major General Enenche explained on
Channels Television’s Politics Today.
According to him, “That is their usual characteristics – those
abductors. It is the same system; the same approach they used.
There was no evidence, no information about them using other modes
of transport.”
Enenche also corroborated the figure earlier given by Governor
Bello Masari of Katsina State on the number of students missing
following the attack which took place on Friday night.
“As at 2 pm yesterday (Sunday), the students that could not be
accounted for reduced to 333,” he added. “Out of that 333,
before I came into the studio, one escaped out of wherever they
kept them.”
As efforts to rescue the students of Government Science
Secondary School, Kankara in the north-western state intensify,
Governor Masari on Monday said the abductors had contacted
them.
“The Governor, who was accompanied by the Deputy Governor of the
state, Manir Yakubu, said the kidnappers had made contact and
discussions were already on pertaining to safety and return to
their homes,” the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba
Shehu said in a statement after Masari’s visit to President
Muhammadu Buhari in Daura.
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Masari, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives,
expressed optimism that with the efforts put so far, “the outlook
is positive.”
The 70-year-old former Speaker of the House of Representatives
stated that it was only appropriate to visit the president and give
him more details of rescue efforts.
Counting Ongoing
On Friday evening, gunmen attacked Government Science Secondary
School in the Kankara council area of the north-west state,
kidnapping scores of students.
Initially, there were conflicting figures as to the number of
students abducted during the attack but two days after the incident
– Sunday – Governor Masari confirmed that three hundred and three
schoolchildren were missing from the school.
“We are still counting because more are coming out from the
forest and we are calling through the numbers those parents that
have phone numbers to find out whether or not their children have
gone back home,” he said when he received a federal government
delegation led by the National Security Adviser, Babagana
Monguno.
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