Twenty-four schoolgirls released after northwestern Nigeria kidnapping

President Tinubu urges intensified efforts to rescue different captives, aft merchandise of schoolgirls seized successful Kebbi State.

Twenty-four girls who were abducted from a authorities boarding schoolhouse successful northwestern Nigeria past week person been released, the presidency announced.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu connected Tuesday welcomed the girls’ merchandise and called connected information forces to intensify efforts to escaped others inactive held captive.

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“I americium relieved that each the 24 girls person been accounted for. Now we indispensable put, arsenic a substance of urgency, much boots connected the crushed successful the susceptible areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping. My authorities volition connection each the assistance needed to execute this,” Tinubu said.

The girls were seized connected November 17 erstwhile equipped men stormed their schoolhouse successful Kebbi State soon aft a subject detachment near the premises.

Mass kidnappings for ransom person go communal successful bluish Nigeria, wherever equipped gangs people schools and agrarian communities, often overwhelming section information forces.

In a abstracted incidental connected Tuesday, gunmen seized 10 women and children from a colony successful Nigeria’s occidental Kwara State.

State constabulary commissioner Ojo Adekimi said the attackers, a radical of “herders”, had “shot sporadically” during the raid connected Monday nighttime connected the colony of Isapa, which neighbours different colony wherever 35 radical were kidnapped conscionable a week before.

‘Need my kid back’

In the largest wide abduction successful caller memory, attackers raided a Catholic schoolhouse connected Friday successful north-central Niger State and abducted much than 300 students and staff. Fifty students escaped implicit the weekend.

Parents of children kidnapped said they were hopeless for their release.

“My lad is simply a tiny boy. He doesn’t adjacent cognize however to talk,” Michael Ibrahim told the AFP quality agency. His son, who is four, suffers from asthma, helium said.

“We don’t cognize the information successful which the lad is,” said Ibrahim, adding that the abduction had truthful sickened his woman that she had to beryllium taken to hospital.

Some of the children abducted are nursery-school age.

“I request my kid back. I request my kid back. If I had the powerfulness to bring my kid back, I would bash it,” different father, Sunday Isaiku, told AFP.

Four days aft the St Mary’s children were taken, nary radical has claimed the abduction oregon contacted the schoolhouse demanding ransom.