Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has said that repentant bandits played a role in securing the release of the over 300 abducted Kankara schoolboys.
Recall that on December 11, gunmen attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state, and abducted the said students few hours after the arrival of President Buhari in the state for a week-long private visit.
While the military claimed the secure of the release of the schoolboys, some other Government officials alleged that ‘Miyetti Allah’ helped in securing the release of the students.
However while speaking as a guest on Channels TV on Tuesday morning, December 22, Shehu said that the conflicting accounts surrounding the release of the schoolboys are inconsequential but what matters now is that the students have been released and reunited their families.
His statement reads in part;
“All of the leading actors said no ransom was paid. The governor of Zamfara State, who had a policy of engagement with the bandits leading to the surrender and renouncement of bandits, used reformed bandits –repentant bandits – to gain access to those that were in the forest and they had them (schoolboys) released."
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