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The 279 female students of Government Secondary School Jangebe, Jangebe, Talata Madara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, kidnapped by bandits last Friday have been released.
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Mutawalle confirmed this in his official Twitter handle.
They were released 4 am Tuesday 2 March 2021.
Governor Bello Muhammad Mutawalle, while receiving the girls in the Government House Gusau, confirmed that the number of kidnapped victims was now clearly 279 as against the over 300 earlier speculated.
The governor called on people to be cautious in their daily activities with regard to happenings around them, even as he said the state government would take care of the freed victims and take them through medical examination to ascertain their state of health.
He appealed to parents to see this as an act God and prayed that this would be the last time such unfortunate incident would happen in the state.
He thanked all those that contributed to the release of the abducted girls.
