OIC condemns abduction of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria, calls for unconditional release
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation OIC has condemned the mass abduction of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria.
While speaking reacting to the kidnapping of over 600 students from Government Science Secondary School in Katsina, the OIC Secretary General, Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen said, “OIC condemns in the strongest terms, the recent mass kidnapping committed by criminal gangs, against hundreds of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria.”
The General Secretariat called for the unconditional release of those students and for their safe return to their families.
Al-Othaimeen reiterated the OIC’s principled position against extremism and terrorism, expressing the solidarity with the authorities in Nigeria in their efforts to combat this phenomenon.
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