President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the release of the 24 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Maga Kebbi last Monday.
Terrorists struck at the school at dawn on November 17 and abducted the girls, moments after a military detachment left the premises.
The Kebbi incident triggered some other copycat kidnappings in Eruku in Kwara State and Papiri in Niger State.
All 38 kidnapped victims in Eruku were freed on Sunday. The same day, the Niger State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria said 50 of the missing students of the Catholic school in Niger have been found in their parents’ homes.
A statement signed by the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, says President Tinubu applauded the security agents for all the efforts made to secure freedom for all the victims taken away by the terrorists.
He tasked the security agents to make more efforts to rescue the remaining students still being held captive.
He says as a matter of urgency, more boots need to be on ground in vulnerable areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping, promising that government will offer all the assistance needed to ensure safe return of the captives.