The Federal Government has said that only 10 pupils of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, are still with bandits who attacked the school on Saturday.
This is at variance with the declaration of the state Governor, Aminu Masari, that 333 pupils are still missing.
The BBC Hausa reported on Sunday that President Muhammadu Buhari spokesperson, Garba Shehu, told it o that those who had escaped from the bandits said only 10 were left.
“Spokesman for the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, told the BBC only 10 children were remaining in the hands of the gunmen according to their colleagues who escaped from the gunmen. The number is below figures released by school authorities at the beginning. Garba Shehu said the school children who escaped said 10 of their friends were still with their abductors,” the BBC said.
