Buhari fails to visit school where over 300 students were abducted despite being Katsina

Despite being in Daura, Katsina State, on a week-long private visit, the President  Buhari failed to visit Gvernment Science Secondary School, Kankara in the state over the abduction of at least 333 schoolboys.

Bandits had stormed the school on Friday night and abducted the students after a gun duel with the police. The President arrived in the state on Friday hours before the abduction took place.

Buhari, who was yet to visit the school, hwever, sent a Federal Government delegation from Abuja to Katsina on Sunday to condole with the government and people of the state over the attack.

Minister of Defence, Gen. Salihi Magashi (retd.), led the nation’s service chiefs on the sympathy visit to the state today. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar; and the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar, are members of the delegation.

Briefing the delegation on Sunday, Governor Aminu Masari, said, “The children so far kidnapped cut across the state because the boarding school houses all children from all parts of the state and some even from outside the state.