By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
The 317 schoolgirls of the Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, have been freed by their captors even though the government is yet to confirm the development.
The girls were abducted from their boarding school in the early hours of Friday.
Sources from Gusau, the state capital, confirmed the release of the schoolgirls on Sunday but could not disclose how they were freed.
Seven out of the 317 abducted female students had escaped earlier from the armed bandits.
Recall that the Zamfara Police Commissioner, CP Abutu Yar, had said a joint search-and-rescue operation was already underway with a view to rescuing all 317 students.
CP Yaro said that the Force Commander Operations Hadarin Daji, Major General Aminu Bande, Brigade Commander 1 Brigade, Nigeria Army Gusau, and other state government officials led a heavily armed Re-enforcement team to Jangebe to complement the rescue operation in the locations where the students were believed to have been whisked to.
Meanwhile, the state Governor, Bello Matawalle, has ordered the immediate closure of all boarding schools in the state.
