The Presidency on Sunday contradicted the claim by Governor Bello Masari of Katsina state that 333 students boys were yet to be accounted for following Friday night’s attack on Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State by suspected bandits.
Presidential spokesman in disagreeing with the figure quoted by the governor in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, said only 10 boys are with the bandits.
“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, the BBC bulletin read.
“Spokesman for the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, told the BBC only 10 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.”
Alabingo.com reported on Saturday that heavily armed gunmen suspected to be bandits on Friday night attacked the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina state and abducted many students from the boarding facility.
The federal government on Sunday sent a delegation from Abuja to visit the school and sympathise with their parents.
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