President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the release of the 24 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists from Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS) Maga in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State last Monday.
Terrorists struck the school at dawn on November 17 and abducted the girls, moments after a military detachment left the premises.
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Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said in a statement that the Kebbi incident had triggered some other copycat kidnappings in Eruku in Kwara State and Papiri in Niger State.
The statement recalled that all 38 kidnapped victims in Eruku were freed on Sunday.
The same day, the Niger State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said 50 of the missing students of the Catholic School in Niger have been found.
President Tinubu applauded the security agents for all the efforts made to secure freedom for all the victims taken away by the terrorists.
He tasked the security agents to make more efforts to rescue the remaining students still being held captive.
“I am relieved that all the 24 girls have been accounted for. Now, we must put as a matter of urgency more boots on the ground in the vulnerable areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping. My government will offer all the assistance needed to achieve this,” President Tinubu said.
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