A teacher who was abducted alongside the Kuriga schoolchildren in the Chikun Local Area of Kaduna State died while in captivity, Governor Uba Sani disclosed on Sunday.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday’s Politics programme, Sani said all the schoolchildren abducted by the terrorists were rescued by the military in collaboration with local authorities from neighbouring Zamfara State.
He however regretted that the teacher could not make it alive following health complications while in captivity.
The governor said, “It’s only one person that has not returned, and that is the teacher. That is the fact of the matter, but all of the 137 children are safely back.
“We had the unfortunate incident that the teacher couldn’t make it because he had some complications; he was sick — that was the report we got from the military and the security agencies but the rest of the children, all of them are back with us.”
The abducted Kuriga schoolchildren were kidnapped by terrorists from the Government Secondary and Primary Schools, Kuriga 1, Chikun LGA of the state, on March 7, 2024.
They spent 17 days in captivity as the terrorists demanded N1billion ransom.
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