By Miracle Ogunde
The Nigeria military, yesterday said that six out of the 131 pupils of Kuriga School who recently regained freedom from their abductors are currently receiving treatment in Kaduna.
General Officer Commanding (GOC) First Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Mayirenso Saraso, who handed over the one hundred and thirty-one pupils freed from the kidnappers’ den to the Kaduna state government, said the military used kinetic and not-kinetic methods in securing their release from the kidnappers in Zamfara State where they were taken.
He confirmed that six pupils, one male and five females, are on admission at the Darlet Barracks military hospital.
According to reports, the children who spent 16 days with their abductors were made to trek a long distance from Kaduna to neighbouring Zamfara.
The federal government had clarified that the kidnapped children were released without payment of payment.
The children, who were reunited with their parents at a dinner, are scheduled for psycho-social therapy at Kaduna State Women and Children Centre before being taken back to Kuriga.
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