By Baron Ike
President Muhammadu Buhari had assured of the safe return of all those abducted by the Boko Haram sect, including the latest 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State.
A good number of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State were still in the captivity of the sect members when the Dapchi incident was reported last week.
But on Monday, February 26 in Abuja, while receiving three University of Maiduguri lecturers, one policewoman and nine other women rescued from the insurgents, at the Presidential Villa, Buhari assured again that nobody would be left behind in captivity.
Said Buhari: “I can’t fully express the joy I felt this afternoon, as I received our citizens recently released from Boko Haram captivity—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters.
“We will go to any length to ensure that no one is left behind in the hands of terrorists. Every Nigerian life matters.
“They are the University of Maiduguri lecturers, abducted while on service to their fatherland, and also the women abducted from a funeral procession.
“Today they are safely back home, and Nigeria rejoices with them and with their families.
“They told me that they had given up all hopes of ever coming back alive.
“I assured them that we will never give up on any of our citizens.
“I have asked the security agencies to ensure that every abducted person—including the Dapchi girls—is safely released.”