Officials in Nigeria say 137 of nearly 300 schoolchildren have been released more than two weeks after they were seized in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests.
WorldFILE - Parents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024. Nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in northwest Nigerias Kaduna state have been released, the state governor said Sunday, March 24, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school.
"Efforts would continue until other hostages are found and the terrorists arrested, tried, and brought to justice by Nigerian law,” Buba said.were also rescued two weeks after they were taken hostage, according to a statement issued Saturday by the Sokoto state government. Under growing pressure to end the mass kidnappings in northern Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu promised his administration is “deploying detailed strategies to ensure that our schools remain safe sanctuaries of learning, not lairs for wanton abductions.”
Murtala Ahmed Rufa’i, a professor of peace and conflict studies at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, and Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a cleric who has negotiated with the bandits, said they were hiding in the region’s vast and ungoverned forests.
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