Despite the claim of the kidnapping of the 500 children by Abubakar Shékau the leader of the group Jamaat Ahl Al-Sunnah Lil Dawa Wal Jihad (JAS) of Boko Haram and despite their release on Thursday, however the mystery remains about the exact author of this kidnapping . It should be recalled that a group of armed men who came on motorcycles stormed around 10 p.m. on Friday, December 11 the Kankara school in north-western Nigeria. Under the nose and the beard of the police, the attackers took the time to empty the school of its 500 boarding students to lead them to the city ring road, a reputed bastion of organized crime. The day after the kidnapping, the governor of Katsina said he was in contact with the kidnappers for the release of the young students. Thursday, December 17 at around 9 p.m., around 450 students found around Tsafe, in Zamfara state (north-western Nigeria) were brought back in trucks by security forces. For the Center for Studies for the Development and Prevention of Extremism, CEDPE, the kidnapping was not directly carried out by Boko Haram but it would have been subcontracted. It is a group of bandits who would have acted on behalf of Boko Haram for money because the Katsina region is far from the stronghold of Boko Haram. As it was difficult for the kidnappers to deliver the goods to their destination, there was no choice but to engage in negotiation in the face of the mobilization of the defense and security forces who are on their heels. The alert was early.
