Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, has debunked claims by Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari, over the number of boys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
Masari had on Sunday, while briefing a Federal Government delegation led by Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, a retired Army Major-General, that 333 boys were abducted by bandits on Friday.
But while speaking on BBC Hausa Service, in a bulletin on Sunday, Shehu said only ten boys were kidnapped and not 333 like the governor said.
He said, “The Government of Nigeria has said its security forces have surrounded the location where gunmen have kept schoolchildren abducted from a secondary school in Katsina State.
“Spokesman for the President, Mallam Garba Shehu told the BBC only ten children were remaining in the hands of the gunmen according to their colleagues who escaped from the gunmen.
The number is below figures released by school authorities at the beginning. Garba Shehu said the school children who escaped said 10 of their friends were still with their abductors.”
