The United States (U.S.) Government has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to do all it can to secure the release of over 300 students abducted in Jangebe, Zamfara state.
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Linda Thomas-Greenfield, tweeted about the Joe Biden administration’s concern about the girls on Friday.
She said the Nigerian Government must come hard on kidnappers within the confines of the law.
Her tweet:“The United States condemns the violent kidnapping of over 300 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Nigeria. The girls must be returned to their families immediately and those responsible for this attack held accountable to the full extent of the law.”
Zamfara Police Command had confirmed the abduction of 317 schoolgirls. Seven of the girls had later escaped from the kidnappers’ den.
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