FG Gives Update On Kagara Students

The government is on top of the situation and will not pay ransom for the release of the Kagara Students held hostage by bandits in Niger State, Lai Mohammed, the minister of Information said in an update on the Kagara Students abducted last Wednesday.

Speaking when he appeared on a Channels Television interview on Saturday morning, the minister, however, said that all options including dialogue were open to get the students released.

Pressed on the claim that the Federal Government had in the past paid ransom especially for the Kankara Boys, the minister in the interview monitored by GreenWhiteGreen, GWG, while saying that the details would not be exposed on public television said:

“No penny was paid for the Kankara Boys.”

While saying that most of the herdsmen involved in the attacks were not Nigerians said that Nigeria was hindered by the ECOWAS protocol which the government will have to find ways to address.

In his update on the Kagara Students, the minister said:

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

“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.

Giving his udpate on Kagara Students, the minister continued:

“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.

“Criminality in any form will not be tolerated by government. At the same time, government has a duty to look at the underlining causes of some of these criminalities in other to address them,” the minister said in his update of the Kagara Students.

“I was in Minna with my colleagues, the Ministers of Interior and Police Affairs, the IG, and the National Security Adviser on Wednesday to get a firsthand information on the abduction of these Kagara schoolboys. I can tell you that as at today that the government is on top of the matter.”

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