Parents and Guardians of students of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School Tegina, can now heave a sigh of relief following the release of their wards.
The students who are between the ages of three and seventeen were taken to a health facility in Minna to certify their health status.
Most of the students looked very tired after embarking on a long journey from the Zamfara forest, through Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, then Kagara, Tegina and finally Minna, the Niger State capital, an experience most of them cannot forget in a hurry.
For the Parents and Guardians of these young promising children, the period of sleepless nights and uncertainties about them is over.
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The Head Teacher, Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, Garba Alhassan ,expressed delight following release of the students.
Already, the children have been reunited with their parents, guardians and other loved ones.
The abduction of the students of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State on May 30th is the second after a similar incident was recorded in February, where staff, relations and students of Government Science College Kagara in the same Rafi Local Government Area were abducted.
(Editor:Abaje Usekwe)