Chaos as freed Nigerian schoolgirls reunited with families
Anxious and indignant mother and father who had been reunited with the women after six days of ready grabbed their daughters and left after photographs rang out. Many had been anxious about touring on the realm’s harmful roads at night time.
The ladies, aged 10 and up, had been kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state and had been launched Tuesday after negotiations. Zamfara Gov. Bello Matawalle mentioned that 279 ladies had been freed.
Upon their launch, the women had been delivered to the federal government’s provincial workplaces, Government House, in Gusau for presentation, earlier than being medically examined and reunited with their families.
Following the kidnappings, the Zamfara state authorities introduced a curfew, which stays in pressure.
Officials mentioned “bandits” had been behind the kidnapping, referring to the teams of armed males who function in Zamfara state and kidnap for cash or to press for the discharge of their members from jail.
At the time of the assault, one resident advised The Associated Press that the gunmen additionally attacked a close-by army camp and checkpoint, stopping troopers from responding to the abductions from the college.
Nigeria has seen a number of such assaults and kidnappings lately, probably the most infamous in 2014, when 276 ladies had been kidnapped by the jihadist rebels of Boko Haram from the secondary faculty in Chibok in Borno state. More than 100 of these ladies are nonetheless lacking.
Last week’s assault got here lower than two weeks after gunmen kidnapped dozens of individuals, together with 24 college students, from the Government Science College Kagara in Niger State. The college students, academics and members of the family kidnapped from Kagara had been launched final week.
In December, 344 college students had been kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State. They had been ultimately launched.
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