Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has said that it is only ten students that are in the left with the bandits who attacked a school in Kankara, Katsina State.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, had said that the bandits kidnapped 333 students when they attacked the Government Secondary School in Kankara.
However, Shehu who spoke to BBC Hausa Service said that the number has reduced to 10.
According to the BBC, “The Government of Nigeria has said its security forces have surrounded the location where gunmen have kept schoolchildren abducted from a secondary school in Katsina State.”
“Spokesman for the President, Mallam Garba Shehu told the BBC only ten children were remaining in the hands of the gunmen according to their colleagues who escaped from the gunmen.
“The number is below figures released by school authorities at the beginning. Garba Shehu said the school children who escaped said 10 of their friends were still with their abductors.
It added, “The number is below figures released by school authorities at the beginning. Garba Shehu said the school children who escaped said 10 of their friends were still with their abductors.”
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