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Coincidentally, on the one-year anniversary of the abduction of Chibok school girls, Dasuki insisted that government was concerned about the welfare of every single
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and is his first son. Dasuki attended Kaduna
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were making all efforts to rescue them. The military rescued more than 300 abductees a few weeks afterwards.
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