The Nigerian Medical Association has gifted 63 of 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, who regained their freedom from kidnappers, JAMB registration forms to sit for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

Recall that 344 students of GSSS in Kankara were abducted from the school in December 2020.

However, following negotiation between the Federal Government and the bandits, all the students were eventually released after six days in captivity.

PUNCH reported that the presentation of the JAMB forms to the students was facilitated on Monday through the State’s Science and Technical Education Board.

The news was further confirmed by the State NMA chairman, Dr. Abubakar Dahiru, on Wednesday in Katsina.

Dahiru explained that while some of the students, who were in Katsina received the JAMB forms on Monday, arrangements had been made to ensure that the rest in Kankara receive theirs at schedule time.

When asked about the motive of the donation, the NMA chairman also stated that the association’s goodwill gesture was to further encourage the students and put the last December abduction incident behind them.

The Executive Secretary, Alhaji Lawal Bosa, who received the JAMB forms on behalf of the students, lauded the NMA for the gesture, promising that all the beneficiaries would receive the forms.