The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says the abducted Kuriga students were rescued through coordinated search and rescue operation conducted by the military in collaboration with local authorities and government agencies.
The primary and secondary school students abducted on March 7, were rescued in the early hour of Sunday.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
He said a total of 137 persons comprising 76 females and 61 male were rescued in Zamfara.
According to him, they would be conveyed and handed over to the Kaduna State Government for further action.
“Relatedly, it would be recalled that on March 21, troops equally rescued 16 pupils (Almajiris) with a woman taken hostage in Gada Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
“These hostages were handed over to the Sokoto State Government.
“These efforts demonstrate the armed forces resolve to finding other innocent hostages and track down the terrorists that perpetrated these crimes.
“These efforts would continue until other hostages are found and the terrorists arrested, tried, and brought to justice by Nigerian law.
“Troops are employing similar effort to track down the culprits responsible for the killing of 18 soldiers in Okuama Community in Delta State.
“Justice await the culprits, as they can not go unpunished,” he said.
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What can one day…! These types nor news, doesn’t give one any joy mor hope for the NIGERIA of my Dream!!!
Whatever might be the gains from embarking on these kinds of negative spasming flux, can never be equated with whatever gains that accrued by this irresponsible acts of bravado, against the so young little Children, I saw in their very freightened minds, at such early stage of their existence, here, Nigeria!!!
For what gains, I ask their oppressors???
Didn’t they the abductors have their own little ones, at their houses, homes, Community and so on!
And they let the achikden be taken for how many weeks; probably more than 2wks…!!!
It’s very sad for me to comprehend it!
So, how could they ever recite the National Anthem at the point that it says: “I Pledge to Nigeria my Country; To be loyal and and Honest…;” Is Nigeria, their Country, if Nigerians, could do this to it’s owns…..!!!
Come to think of it: Is Nigeria; really a Country???
How could these anomalies be part of a Country; that we call our own???
What did Bishop KUKA, of the Sokoto Diocese said about Nigeria!!!
Someone should remind me, as I seemed to have lost it all on the Dore Consequences of the traumatic experiences of the just released Abducted Children!!!
Meanwhile, the narratives given are as confusing as the WAEC/NECO EAxams; that our equally traumatized pupils & students faces, in such terror fits of Examinations, to what ends….!!!
Let’s Consult BISHOP HASAAN KUKAH;S SUGGESTIONS FOR THR SÀFEST DELIVERY OF THIS NATION CALLED NIGERIA, BIKO NU!!!