Security forces yesterday continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the Northwest of the country in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, as calls for an overhaul of the security hierarchy intensify. More than 280 children aged between seven and 18 were kidnapped from a school in Kuriga, Kaduna State last Thursday in one of the biggest mass abductions in recent months and a further 15 children were taken in another raid on a school in Sokoto on Saturday.
This is after more than 200 other people, mostly women and children displaced by conflict, were taken in a separate raid in the Northeastern state Borno last week
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