…Schoolboys abduction not stage-managed, says Lai Mohammed
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, said yesterday, the release of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, by armed bandits has vindicated President Muhammadu Buhari.
Recall that armed bandits had last Friday invaded the college and took away the students after a gun duel with the police. The students were later released in Tsafe, in Zamfara State, last Thursday and were transported back to Katsina on Friday, exactly seven days after their abduction by the hoodlums.
Tinubu, who reacted to the development, also commended the Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari and the security agents for ensuring that the students returned to their parents.
He said: 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 insurgents and bandits. Meanwhile, the Federal Government has described as senseless, the claim in certain quarters that the abduction and release of over 300 schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, was stage-managed.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, dismissed the claim yesterday, when he spoke on NTA’s programme. Mohammed said many people were disappointed that the Kankara abduction was resolved so fast just like that of Dapchi.
The minister admonished politicians and other interest groups to stop politicising and commercialising issues of security and national tragedy.
Katsina students release vindicates Buhari Tinubu
