The Miyetti Allah has denied reports that it was part of the negotiations towards the release of the abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government area of Katsina state.
This clarification by Miyetti Allah comes despite an earlier statement by the Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari; who stated the group facilitated the release of the schoolboys.
However, the National Secretary of Miyeti Allah, Baba Othman Ngelzarma, in a statement issued on Saturday, December 19, stated categorically that the group had nothing to do with the negotiations; as it did not know the bandits nor endorsed their activities.
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In the statement, Ngelzarma said: “We want to make it categorically clear; that Miyeti Allah was not part of the negotiations to free the abducted Katsina students.
“Unless Governor Aminu Masari was discussing with the Katsina State branch of the association; but definitely not with the national leadership.
“Even if he did, our national body would have been aware. He did not discuss with Miyeti; and our members were not part of the negotiations,” Ngelzarma said.
Also collaborating with Ngelzarma’s stance, the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, posited that nobody contacted them or discussed with them over the abduction of the students.
“We don’t know the bandits and we don’t want to know them and we don’t have anything to do with them. No member of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, even at local levels, knows the bandits.
“The Katsina State government did not engage any of our members in whatever negotiation it had with the bandits”, he stated.
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