The Arewa Consultative Discussion board, ACF, has condemned the kidnapping of 287 college students and academics from GSS Kuriga and LEA Major Faculty, Kuriga in Kaduna State.
The Discussion board described the event as an onslaught on training in Northern Nigeria, which should be tackled.
In a press release by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Prof Tukur Muhammad-Baba on Saturday, ACF stated the varied circumstances of abduction round colleges, together with that of Federal College Gusau in July final 12 months, have been indicative of the very parlous state of safety within the nation.
The group famous that the event has proven that faculty youngsters are a defensively weak inhabitants.
The Discussion board nevertheless referred to as on the Federal Authorities to transcend bland and sterile directives to insisting on outcomes inside particular time frames.
“The Arewa Consultative Discussion board (ACF) is gravely saddened and exasperated on the information of the mass abduction by terrorists/bandits of about 312 college students (20 of whom reportedly are orphans), from the Native Training Authority (LEA) Major Faculty and Junior Secondary Faculty, together with a principal at Kuriga, Chikun native authorities space of Kaduna state, on Thursday, March seventh, 2024.
“As a tragic reminder about their unabated presence, the terrorists struck once more, attacked worshippers, and killed two individuals throughout Friday prayers at Angwar Makera, Kwasakwasa Group in Birnin Gwari native authorities space, Kaduna state.
“Collectively, the incidents regarded deliberate upfront, a most discomfiting actuality, given the large public sources being allotted to the safety sector.
“As ACF had noticed in July, 2023, when college students of the Federal College Gusau have been kidnapped (and sadly nonetheless in captivity), these disturbing incidents level to the very parlous state of safety within the nation, and particularly that faculty youngsters are a defensively weak inhabitants.
“ACF unequivocally decries and condemns the incidents in sturdy phrases and hereby: Requires the instant and unconditional return of the kidnapped college students and pupils, unhurt, to their mother and father/guardians; Commiserates with the mother and father/ guardians of the pupils and college students,” the assertion stated.
