Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has slammed
the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over his recent
comment on school kidnapping.
Mohammed had in an interview with Channels Television said
that developed countries also experience school kidnapping.
He said this amid the kidnapping of students and staff of
Government Science College, Kagara in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State
by bandits.
The Minister said, “Even in the most developed countries of
this world, school kidnapping takes place. Last year, in the US, we all
witnessed three of four school kidnappings, and that is in probably one of the
most developed countries in the world.
“The thing about terrorism is that the terrorists don’t live
by your own rules and they are especially interested in soft targets. They know
that what is going to get global attention is kidnapping school children.
“We must be careful; we can’t turn all our schools into
barracks. What is important is intelligence gathering, surveillance rather than
the physical presence of the soldiers or policemen.
“We are dealing with people who don’t think like me and you,
we are dealing with people who don’t have any rules of engagement, we are
dealing with people whose motivation is completely different from mine and
yours. And anywhere in the world, this is how terrorists operate but the most
important thing is to learn from what is happening and adapt.”
Mohammed’s statement has been described as soulless by
Ezekwesili who was an activist campaigning for the release of the schoolgirls
kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in Chibok, Borno State in 2014.
“Imagine. Yet another soulless statement that should not be
heard from anyone in Public Leadership. The cries of #ChibokGirls and parents,
#LeahSharibu and parents #KagaraStudents and parents are judging this statement
daily,” she wrote on her verified Twitter handle.
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