There is apprehensive laced with uncertainty after Boko Haram released a video showing the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state on Thursday.
Some of the boys, looking distraught, appealed to the government to cooperate with their abductors so that they can be freed in a new video released by the insurgents.
One of the boys said, “Please help us. Tell the vigilantes and soldiers not to come around. More than 500 of us are in the forest.
“Close any form of school, including Islamiyah. Please send the army back. They can’t do anything to help us. Please sir, we need your assistance.”
Katsina state governor, Aminu Masari, had claimed that bandits and not Boko Haram abducted the schoolboys.
Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, had on Tuesday said his group was responsible for the attack.