We will secure release of 110 Dapchi girls, others abducted by Boko Haram - Buhari
President Muhamamdu Buhari on Monday, February 26, promised that his administration would ensure the safe return of all those abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents, including the 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state.
The president made the promise at the Presidential Villa, Abuja while receiving three University of Maiduguri lecturers, one policewoman and nine other women rescued from the insurgents.
In a series of messages he posted on his Twitter handle, @MBuhari, the president assured his guests that nobody would be left behind in captivity.
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He tweeted: “I can’t fully express the joy I felt I this afternoon, as I received our citizens recently released from Boko Haram captivity—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters. We will go to any length to ensure that no one is left behind in the hands of terrorists. Every Nigerian life matters.”
President Buhari added: “There were the University of Maiduguri lecturers, abducted while on service to their fatherland, and also the women abducted from a funeral procession.
“Today they are safely back home, and Nigeria rejoices with them and with their families.
“They told me that they had given up all hope of ever coming back alive. I assured them that we will never give up on any of our citizens.
“I have asked the security agencies to ensure that every abducted person—including the Dapchi girls—is safely released.”
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Legit.ng previously reported that some parents of the school girls abducted from Government Girls Science Technical School in Dapchi, headquarters of Bursari local government area of Yobe state, have threatened to withdraw their children to safer schools.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen had sometime last week attacked the community and abducted several students from Government Girls Technical College.
Some parents, in a separate interview in Dapchi town, expressed their dismay and lack of responsibility on the side of government who had earlier told them that their children had been found and kept under the custody of the Nigerian Army which turned out not to be true.
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