A fresh wave of optimism is sweeping across the polity amid reports that the abducted schoolgirls of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area in Zamfara State could regain freedom Sunday.
Negotiations between the brigands, who abducted the girls, and the state government have commenced and at the final stage, Sunday Punch quoted sources who are familiar with development to have said.
Recall that the girls were abducted in the early hours of Friday when the bandits attacked their school, instigating a storm of outrage over what’s now become a routine occurrence and the palpable ineptitude of the government to thwart such ignoble and diabolical incidents.
The kidnapped schoolgirls were said to have been kept in a forest between Dangulbi and Sabon Birnin Banaga in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
“As I am speaking to you now (Saturday), vehicles have been arranged for their evacuation to Gusau town, the state capital,” Punch quoted a source to have said.
The newspaper source refuted assertions and media reports that the kidnapped schoolgirls are 317, claiming that they are 279.
Parents of the kidnapped schoolgirls including Garba Ibrahim have confirmed that their children would regain freedom soon. They said that the government has hinted to them of the plans to release their children soon, urging them to relax, the outlet said.
Though the state government is yet to confirm or deny the state of negotiations, Information commissioner Suleman Anka insisted that the state is hoping to welcome the schoolgirls soon.
Bandits have now resorted to abduction of school children as means to extort money from the government and consolidate their thriving abduction endeavour.
The criminals in the week past kidnapped dozens of students and workers of Government Science College in Kagara, Niger State. The Gazette exclusively reported that N800 million was paid for their freedom.
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