KATSINA: Kankara students’ release vindicates Buhari’s commitment to end insecurity – Tinubu

ALL Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, has said the prompt rescue of over 300 schoolboys abducted December 11 from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, is heartwarming.

In a statement yesterday, Tinubu also commended the Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari and the security agents for ensuring that the students returned to their parents.

He said: “The initial abduction of the over 300 Kankara students from their dormitory in broad daylight was unsettling and raises serious concern. However, their prompt rescue from their abductors is heart-warming.

“It vindicates President Buhari in his untiring commitment and determination to rid the country of insecurity and confront Boko Haram insurgents and bandits operating in some parts of the country.

“This laudable effort must be sustained. We must all do more to tackle the evil-doers and see the back of the Boko insurgents and bandits.

“We need to upgrade our security infrastructure and re-strategise. The armed forces themselves must renew their efforts to make not only our schools safe for students but also our cities and villages.

“No development can occur in a climate of fear, uncertainty, and insecurity of lives and property.”

The APC chieftain also “empathise with the agonised parents and relations of the abducted schoolboys and rejoice with them over the release of their children from the jaws of the abductors.”

Gunmen, believed to be bandits, attacked the school on December 11 and abducted hundreds of students after killing some of the security operatives guarding the school.

The abduction occurred some hours after the President arrived in Daura, Katsina for a week-long private visit.

Police, in the wake of the abduction, claimed to have rescue 200 of the kidnapped students.

Governor Masari later announced that the government was negotiating with the students’ abductors who according to him are “well known” bandits who had taken the students into a forest in Zamfara.

Masari, however, announced on December 17 that 344 schoolboys were released by bandits in Zamfara State.