A pupil of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, where over 300 schoolboys were recently kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group, has narrated how he escaped from captivity.
Tsanni Mani, a Junior Secondary School 2 student, told journalists that one of his captors aided his escape very early on Saturday morning.
He also said the bandits divided the abducted boys into batches.
Mani spoke 24 hours after the killing of the two of the abducted boys was reported.
Mani stated,
“My escape is a miracle. But all I know was that all along when we were abducted, I kept on saying Allahu Akbar (God is great).
“The bandits divided us into batches so I cannot give exact figures of all of us.
“It was one of the bandits whom God used to ensure my escape early Saturday morning.
“The bandit showed me an escape route very early Saturday morning which made me escape and return home.”
Meanwhile, Boko Haram, on Tuesday, claimed responsibility for the abduction of the schoolboys.
Boko Haram, however, said it had not entered into negotiations with the government contrary to claims by the authorities.
The terror group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, stated this in a recording released on Tuesday morning and obtained by HumAngle.
Like in the case of the abduction of the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls in 2014, Shekau in his latest recording said the dastardly act was done in order to discourage people from obtaining western education.
“What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education is not the type of education permitted by Allah and his Holy Prophet.
“They are also not teaching what Allah and his Holy Prophet commanded. They are rather destroying Islam. It may be subtle, but Allah the Lord of the skies and earths knows whatever is hidden. May Allah promote Islam. May we die as Muslims. In a nutshell, we are behind what happened in Katsina.”
