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Nigeria says it will increase security around schools as it welcomes back abducted students

Some 130 children and teachers, released after being kidnapped from their Catholic school in Nigeria last month, attended a ceremony on Monday held by Niger's state governor.

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00:00130 kidnapped children and teachers attended a ceremony on Monday to mark their release
00:06after a month in captivity.
00:09Their kidnapping was one of the worst mass abductions in Nigeria's history.
00:14No one has claimed responsibility but locals blamed armed groups looking for ransoms.
00:21We are implementing immediate short-term protective measures in high-risk areas while concurrently
00:27working with state governments, traditional and religious leaders to develop lasting
00:34community-based community solutions.
00:39For education, it must not be a casualty to violence.
00:44We will continue to pursue policies and operations to restore confidence, reopen schools safely
00:53and ensure that the rights of every Nigerian child to learn in safety is upheld.
01:00Officials dismissed questions about whether ransoms were paid.
01:04I don't think it's very fair, you know, to the system, to the government for you to ask
01:09whether that money was used or not.
01:11The most important thing, we have gotten these people back on heart, you know.
01:16The other one is for us, not for you.
01:19So I think the most important thing is that we have recovered missing children and how we
01:23did it, we know it.
01:25Most of the kidnapped children were aged between 10 and 17, their school said, and now set to
01:31be reunited with their families.
01:33That's right.
01:35Yes?
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01:38I think the most important thing is that we are found with their families.
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01:45And as a officer of the medical care there was an American mother, may be it,
01:46I do not believe in that it was a journalist.
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