By Francis Sardauna
Some of the abducted 344 students of Government Science Secondary School who regained freedom on Thursday night from their abductors, have vowed not to return to school until adequate security measures are put in place by the state government.
The students, who spoke in an exclusive interview with THISDAY in Government House on Friday, also urged Governor Aminu Bello Masari to relocate the school to Kankara town.
The schoolboys who were freed from captivity arrived Katsina State Government House Friday morning.
They were driven into the Government House in a convoy escorted by the 17 Brigade Commander, Brig-General WB Idris and other top security operatives.
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The warning signs were there from the moment he won that election in March 2015 that his impetus to govern had suffered a catastrophic failure and become flaccid like the weary arm of a stuffed doll.
Taking eight months, from winning the elections, to announce a cabinet was a starting point of this unravelling. Pointedly refusing to raise a finger against those responsible for padding the budget in that first year, despite promising to fight corruption, was yet another. But Nigerians, weary of the wastefulness of the Jonathan years, were far more accommodating of Buhari’s excesses than they had ever been with any president in the history of the country.
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Ronke Idowu
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Wednesday declined to comment on why President Muhammadu Buhari has not visited Kankara since the abduction of over 300 students from Government Science Secondary School in the state.
During an interview on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, the Governor refused to answer if he spoke with President Muhammadu Buhari on why he has not visited the school.
Instead, the governor asked the Channels Television presenter to go and ask President Buhari the question.
See the conversation below:
Channels Television Presenter: Governor, still staying with the visit to the President. I am sure you have seen a lot of questions coming from the President asking just why the President has not visited the school. Did you get any response concerning that.