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Security Experts Dispute Authorities Claims Over Nigerian Schoolboy
Abductions

Timothy Obiezu

   ABUJA, NIGERIA - Nigerian security experts are casting doubt on the
   claim by authorities that tensions between farmers and cattle herders
   led to the recent wave of kidnappings in the northwestern state of
   Katsina. More than 300 schoolboys were abducted earlier this month but
   later released. Timothy Obiezu reports from Abuja.

   Authorities in Katsina initially blamed the mass abduction of 344
   schoolboys on gangs of bandits who have kidnapped other people for
   ransom in the northwestern Nigerian state.

   Then officials reversed course, tying the abductions to cattle herders
   at odds with farmers about how to use the land.

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