President Muhammudu Buhari has charged all the security agencies in the country – military, police, and other security forces to ensure the safety and quick rescue of all kidnapped victims in the federal republic of Nigeria.
President Buhari gave the directive while reacting to the recent abduction of a large number of students in Kaduna and Niger states.
The saddened president also added that additional operatives have been deployed to all bandits occupied regions whiles further urging security outfits to “act swiftly” to rescue all abducted schoolchildren in the affected states and ensure their safe return.
Going forward with his statement about the surge in kidnappings, President Buhari also described the kidnapping as “cowardly and despicable, as well as an assault on affected families and the nation”.
The President said the disturbing incidents of students’ kidnapping, mostly in northern states, was already threatening to undermine efforts in boosting school enrolments in states that were adjudged educationally backwards.
President Buhari also entreated state governments to ensure compliance with the United Nations-supported safe schools’ program, which the present administration had adopted.
Earlier yesterday, bandits kidnapped an unknown number of students from Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Chikun LGA of Kaduna state.
Source: Gossips24.com
