The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Salihi-Magashi has come out to say that the abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, will be rescued soon.

He revealed this recently in Katsina when he led a Federal Government delegation to Gov. Aminu Masari on a sympathy visit.

According to him, security agents are currently working hard to secure their release, and all hands are on deck to make it happen as soon as possible.

He added that there are strategies in place to fastrack their release, and he believes it will be successful without any collateral damage to the people of Katsina State.

His words, “So far, we have been briefed by the Police Commissioner, GOC, Brigade Commander, Air Commander, DSS, and other security officers.

”Our interest is to keep ourselves abreast with what actually happened two days ago and we believe with their briefings, this task is going to be simple for us.

”We have strategies and I believe we can do it without any collateral damage to the people of Katsina State.

“We have the intelligence, the information, their whereabouts, their movements and their methods of operations.

“The task is easy for the armed forces and the police.

”The only thing is that we need prayers from you so that there will be no collateral damage in the event of being hostile.

“We assure you that all hands are on deck.”