The 24 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Secondary
School, Maga, Kebbi state, have been rescued.
Security sources confirmed the rescue of the girls on Tuesday.
Details of the efforts that led to the rescue of the
students are still sketchy at the time of this report, but an official
announcement is expected tonight.
On November 17, bandits attacked the school and abducted 25
female students after killing an official and injuring a security guard.
According to a BBC report, two of the girls escaped from
their captors. Quoting Hussaini Aliyu, an official from Danko Wasagu LGA, the
BBC reported that the two students ran away as they were being led into the
bushes by the bandits and escaped across farmland.
On November 19, Hussaini Aliyu, chairman of Danko/Wasagu LGA
in Kebbi, released names of the 25 abducted schoolgirls.
The list of the kidnapped students, seen by TheCable, is
organised according to their class categories.
After the incident, Bello Sani, commissioner of police in
Kebbi, said additional police tactical units, alongside military personnel and
vigilante groups, have been deployed in the area.
Sani said the combined team was combing suspected escape
routes and surrounding forests in a coordinated search-and-rescue operation
aimed at recovering the abducted students and apprehending the perpetrators.
Waidi Shaibu, chief of army staff (COAS), also directed
troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA to leave no stone unturned in the ongoing
search-and-rescue operation for the abducted students.
President Bola Tinubu also directed Bello Matawalle,
minister of state for defence, to relocate to Kebbi over the abduction of
schoolgirls.
Tinubu ordered Matawalle to move to the state “to monitor
security efforts to secure the release of the abducted students”.
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