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NIGER STATE GOVERNMENT EXPLAINS DELAY IN RESCUE OF KIDNAPPED SCHOOL GIRLS

The Niger State Government has explained the reason behind the prolonged captivity of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya Tegina school girls in the den of their abductors. 


Eons Intelligence gathered that the parents of the children kicked against using military operation to rescue the girls.


The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, stated in Minna, the state capital, yesterday that the government wanted to use the military to raid the forests where the girls are being held but their parents opposed the plan because of the likelihood of a collateral damage to some of the girls.


He said: “The government wanted to use the special security corps it launched in mid-June to confront the bandits in the forest, but the parents of the school girls begged that they would not like to lose any child. They begged us to allow them exhaust all the peaceful means to secure their children, and that’s why we halted the operation.


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“You know this type of operation would end in collateral damage, as we know where these bandits are, and we are monitoring their movements.”


The state government scribe also mentioned that the government has a policy of not paying ransom to bandits because the money paid has been discovered to be used to buy more arms with which they intimidate ordinary citizens.


Matane also revealed that the state government has been single-handedly funding all the security operations in the state, adding that not less than 1,000 soldiers, policemen and men of the local vigilante are catered for on daily basis.


According to him, though the federal government provides the personnel, “the state gives daily allowances to these security operatives.”



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