Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations has welcomed the release of 344 schoolboys forcibly taken away from their school in northwest Nigeria a week ago.
After the release of the boys, kidnapped by armed men from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara on 11 December, Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres called for the “
immediate and unconditional release of those who remain abducted”.
In a statement issued by his Deputy Spokesperson,
Farhan Haq, Mr. Guterres commended “
the swift action taken by the Nigerian authorities to rescue the children” while also stressing the importance that those children and their families are now “
provided with the necessary health and psychosocial support”.