Members of the National Working Committee of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday, hit the street in Abuja, on a peaceful protest over the abduction of more than 300 students of the Government Science Secondary School, GSSS, Kankara, Katsina state.
Led by the National Party Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, the members urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC- led Government to urgently rescue the students, and save their parents and the nation from untold anxiety and pains.
Over six hundred of the students, all boys, were abducted by, according to the State Governor, Aminu Masari, local bandits. About 17 of them escaped, and returned home.
But it turns out that the claim by the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, that his group abducted the boys, is true.
Masari had, in a television interview, on Wednesday, dismissed Shekau’s claim.
But Thursday afternoon, Shekau released the photographs of the boys as proof he has them in his custody.
The abduction of the boys from President Buhari’s Katsina triggered a combination of outrage and national shame.
They were abducted hours after Buhari arrived Katsina on a week-long private visit.
More outrage greeted Buhari’s inability to visit the school to condole with the parents, the people and the school authorities.
Instead, his aides released a photograph of the President, visiting his cattle at his ranch.
Inexplicably, an official delegation flew in from Abuja on a condolence visit to the Government and people of Katsina. The delegation did not visit the President at his residence.
Mr President has yet to address the Nation on the abduction of the students.
He gave the usual marching orders for their rescue. Nothing has been heard since then about the boys, except Masari’s assurance that none of them has been killed.
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