FG won’t pay ransom to Kagara schoolboys, Staff abductors-Minister

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President Muhammad Buhari

By Gambo Jagindi

February 20, 2021

FG won’t pay ransom to Kagara Schoolboys, Staff abductors

The minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the federal government will not pay ransom to secure the release of the abducted students and members of staff of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger state.

 

Alhaji Mohammad said this on Saturday, while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’.

“We employ kinetic and non-kinetic (measures), you don’t throwaway invitation to engage but the overall strategy you keep to your chest,” he said.

The minister noted that the federal government will not allow any form of criminal activities in any parts of the country.

“Bandits all over the world work with psychology of people. Deliberately, they target women and children because this is what will attract a lot of global outcry. That is exactly what bandits do all over the world,” he said.

“The government has put in place, all along, various strategies to contain banditry, to fight insurgency, to fight kidnapping. Some of these measures are kinetic, some are not kinetic. We didn’t get here overnight and that is why it is difficult to get out one day.”

On Wednesday, gunmen suspected to be bandits stormed the school, and kidnapped several students, members of staff, and some members of their families.

Abubakar Bello, governor of the state, had said 27 students, three staff and 12 family members were kidnapped from the school.

President Muhammadu Buhari had immediately sent a security delegation to the state.

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