BEVERLY HILLS, February 22, (THEWILL) – The 27 students of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State and 15 others have not been released by their abductors.
Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Mary Noel-Berje, debunked reports of their purported release.
“Those released are the NSTA bus abductees and they have just arrived Government House, while efforts are being intensified to get the Kagara students released,” she clarified.
She appealed to the public to stop mixing up the two stories.
“Please I will want to draw the attention of the general public to stop mixing up the story”, she tweeted.
Twenty-seven students of the Government Science School, three staff and 12 staffers’ family members were abducted by gunmen last week Wednesday in Kagara Local Government.
There have been negotiations between the bandits and the Niger State Government for their release after the intervention of Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi
Earlier, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello announced the release of the abducted 21 passengers of Niger State Mass Transit bus.
The 21 passengers were abducted by bandits, while travelling from Kontagora to Minna on 14th February.
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