Kankara in a sentence

No fewer than 25 worshippers of New Life for All Church in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, have been abducted by bandits.

Earlier this year, road users and residents of Katsina State celebrated the commencement of the reconstruction of the 170km Marabar Kankara-Katsina road, which had become dilapidated 30 years after it was constructed.

Kankara local government has come under serious attacks in recent times, with villages deserting communities there as a result of incessant banditry.

Despite the release of Kankara boys by terror-bandits, citizens still live in fear and apprehension of further attacks.

Despite the rescue efforts of both the Federal and Katsina State Governments at freeing the Kankara kidnapped students, some senior lawyers are demanding more actions from President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest the rising tide of insecurity in the country.

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has reacted to the release of the abducted schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina State.

Further checks by Sunday Vanguard in Katsina, showed that bandits have been attacking Batsari, Jibia, Dutsinma, Safana, Danmusa, Kankara, Faskari, Dandume and Sabua LGAs lately.

He made the disclosure on Friday, December 18, when he addressed the rescued Kankara schoolboys in Katsina state.

However, Matawalle’s name popped up after it emerged that he was instrumental to the negotiations that resulted in the release of the abducted 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State.

Hundreds of students were last week abducted from a school in Kankara Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State.

Katsina State police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement that the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot with AK-47 rifles.

One of the rescued boys, Abdul Raouf Issa, who was still wearing the purple and white school uniforms of the Government Science High School in Kankara, said he felt relieved is over.

President and Convener Mike Msuaan, said: “We wonder why the Bishop has not found it honourable enough to commend the efforts of the President in the rescue of some of the Chibok girls and all the Kankara boys from the hands of insurgents.

President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the released students of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara.

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that the abduction of 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State was targeted at embarrassing his administration.

She said that the frontline local government areas comprised: Sabuwa, Faskari, Dundume, Kankara, Danmusa, Safana, Jibia and Batsari.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has apologised to students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State over their abduction and trauma they were subjected to during their six days in captivity.

The initial story by the presidency was that the military supported by airpower had located the “bandit’s enclave at the Zango/Paula forest in Kankara and there have been exchange of fire in an-ongoing operation”.

This happened same day hundreds of the Kankara schoolboys were released by the abductors believed to be bandits.

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