Kidnapped Zamfara Girls Escape As Buhari Warns

Seven out of the 317 schoolgirls abducted on Wednesday morning from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State have escaped. The escape of seven of the Kidnapped Zamfara girls came as President Muhammadu Buhari warned governors against the policy of rewarding repentant bandits.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG gathered that the seven girls after their escape reached their respective homes Friday evening according to residents.

Details of the escape were still sketchy but Channels Television confirmed the escape of seven of the girls.

The escape of the kidnapped Zamfara girls came as President Muhammadu Buhari described the abduction as inhumane and warned the bandits not to test the resolve of his government to deal with them.

In his reaction to the latest kidnap, he said that his “administration will not succumb to blackmail by bandits who target innocent school students in the expectations of huge ransom payments.”

According to the President, “no criminal group can be too strong to be defeated by the government,” adding that, “the only thing standing between our security forces and the bandits are the rules of engagement.”

“We have the capacity to deploy massive force against the bandits in the villages where they operate, but our limitation is the fear of heavy casualties of innocent villagers and hostages who might be used as human shields by the bandits,” he said, stressing that “our primary objective is to get the hostages safe, alive and unharmed.”

President Buhari noted that “a hostage crisis is a complex situation that requires maximum patience in order to protect the victims from physical harm or even brutal death at the hands of their captors.”

He warned the bandits: “Let them not entertain any illusions that they are more powerful than the government. They shouldn’t mistake our restraint for the humanitarian goals of protecting innocent lives as a weakness or a sign of fear or irresolution.”

The President appealed to state governments “to review their policy of rewarding bandits with money and vehicles, warning that the policy might boomerang disastrously.”

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