The Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani has attributed the release of 287 schoolchildren by terrorists who kidnapped them on March 7 to the intervention of President Bola Tinubu, National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu and the Nigerian Army.
The Governor, who made this known in the early hours of today, March 24, in a statement, specially thanked the President, the NSA and the Army, but would not give details of the roles they played for the pupils to have been let off the kidnappers’ hook.
The Governor was silence as to whether a ransom was paid to the kidnappers who had earlier demanded trillion of naira as ransom, or whether the pupils were rescued after exchange of fire between the soldiers and the terrorists.
The terrorists had on March 7, stormed LGEA Primary School, Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and kidnapped scores of pupils and teachers at about 8:20 am immediately after the morning assembly.
