A pro-democracy and Non-governmental
body-Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the
Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo of gross insensitive and
non-challance to the plight of the six students of a Lagos model school
kidnapped over 50 days ago.
In a statement by the National
coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director,
Miss Zanaib Yusuf, HURIWA said it was shameful that the Acting President was
seen celebrating his wife’s golden jubilee and attending high society wedding
of the daughter of the Ogun state governor and the Son of a presidential aide,
Mrs. Abike Dabiri even when such national calamity like the kidnap of school
children have yet to be resolved and the schools made sufficiently secured for
meaningful and constructive learning activities.
HURIWA expresed dismay at the
inability of the Inspector General of police, Ibrahim Kpotum Idris and the
Director General of the Department of State services, Alhaji Lawal Musa Daura
to unravel those behind the sensational abduction of the six school boys even
when it has been widely reported that the parents have been cajoled by the
hoodlums to part with over N30 million and yet their Children aren’t freed.
“The security forces especially the Nigeria police force right under the command and control of the Presidency have spectacularly failed to rescue these unfortunate Nigerian school boys whose parents have coughed out over 30 million naira ransom without seeing their children. This is a serious dent on the international image of Nigeria which has rapidly pushed Nigeria up into the top 20 most dangerous places on the Planet Earth”.
HURIWA stated thus: “It is the greatest embarrassment of the decade that armed kidnappers in Lagos have on more than one occasion breached the security of schools and kidnaped hapless children of poor Nigerians and the police authority and other security services have not jointly embarked on surgical covert operation to rescue these boys even when the same security forces sprang up and deployed intelligence led crack team to rescue the wife of the governor of central Bank of Nigeria when she was kidnapped in Edo state”.
The rights group has, therefore,
charged the Acting president to personally direct that all the security heads
in Nigeria must ensure the immediate release of these school boys.
“We urge the Acting president to also ensure that Nigeria establishes a national anti-kidnapping security joint task force to be composed of operatives and officers drawn from the crack teams of all the security forces in Nigeria because of the diverse effects of kidnapping which discourages foreign direct investors from coming to Nigeria”.
Besides, HURIWA said it is
unbecoming that the Federal and State governments will fail to discharge the
primary constitutional obligation of providing security of lives and property
of Nigerians and yet the political class go about with hundreds of armed
security forces and letting armed kidnappers to have field days kidnapping
helpless citizens.
It recalled that the Six Senior
Secondary School students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, in Epe area,
were early on 25th May 2017 kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
HURIWA also recalled that four students
and two staff of the school were abducted in October last year. The kidnappers
involved in the yet unresolved criminal operation according to police sources,
were suspected to be members of a militant kidnap gang that had carried out
several kidnappings, armed robbery and the killings of security agents around
Lagos and Ogun state.
It, therefore, wonders why the
security forces have yet to arrest the kingpins of this latest kidnap incident
when the police already have actionable intelligence on the suspected
perpetrators of the heinous crimes against humanity.
HURIWA has therefore warned that
it may begin international advocacy campaign alongside its allies and foreign
friends to inform the international community that Nigeria is no longer safe
for the lives and property of the citizens and foreign visitors even as the
Rights group may appeal to the United Nations Security Council to send in
security forces to stop the killings of unarmed members of the civil populace
in Nigeria.
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What a shame!!!. There is no future for this country called Nigeria, where elected Leaders care only about themselves and their immediate and they are preaching Change. What change?
ReplyDeleteThe kidnappers also must be highly condemned. What else do they want after collecting 30 million naira from the poor parents?
ReplyDeleteWhere are the huge Security Votes the State Governors are collecting monthly?
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