Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji on Sunday paid a visit to the pupils and teachers of Apostolic Faith Nursery and Primary School, Emure Ekiti following their release from captivity.
Gunmen kidnapped pupils and staff of the school on January 29. They regained their freedom early Sunday.
Oyebanji visited the victims at the State Teaching Hospital in Ado Ekiti and said he had sent his deputy to commiserate with the family of the school bus driver who was killed by the kidnappers.
“I am excited and give glory to God for the answered prayers and President Bola Tinubu for his swift response to this. His intervention made all the difference,” he said.
“I am thankful to him on behalf of Ekiti people. I am extremely grateful and also thank all the security chiefs. All of them put resources together, they mobilised men and materials to ensure we rescued them. I am extremely grateful to all of them.”
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The governor also commended the commissioner for health, Dr Oyebanji Filani, and his team for their swift response in the release of the victims.
He explained that the commissioner was already in Emure to receive the victims upon their release in the early hours of Sunday, explaining that the victims are all stable in the state teaching hospital.
Oyebanji assured that all the rescued pupils and teachers will get adequate medical attention at the behest of the Ekiti State Government.
The governor said they would soon be reunited with their respective families.
“I sympathise and condole with the family of the departed. I’ve dispatched the deputy governor to go to Emure to go and commiserate with them,” Oyebanji said.
