Niger School Kidnap: Buhari Exhibiting Lack Of Capacity To Secure Citizens, Says NBM Of Africa

Neo Black Movement, NBM of Africa has decried the recent abduction of about 200 pupils of an Islamiyya school in Tegina, Rafi local government area Niger state two months after a large number of pupils were kidnapped from Government School Kankara in Zamfara state, saying such recurrent incident is an indication of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s ability to secure citizens.

The group says despite assurance by President Muhammadu Buhari that such massive abduction of pupils will not happen again, it has continued to happen, insisting that the President has refused to honour his word.

The group in a statement on Monday by the Public Relations Officer, Mr. Oluwatosin Dixon says the continuous abduction and other security concerns across the country indicates lack of willingness by security agencies to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians.

While calling for the immediate release of the abducted school children, Neo Black Movement insisted that more efforts should be put in place to stamp out the orgy of violence across the country.

The release partly reads, “We fear that the President is exposing himself as being incapable of keeping his words.

“We condemn in all ramifications the seeming free passage offered bandits and other violent criminals by the Federal government of Nigeria.

“We demand the immediate release of the kidnapped pupils, just as we continue to call on the political leadership to live up to their responsibilities.

“We must not fail to point out that what we are witnessing is a culmination of inaction and/or outright complicity of state actors, working to bring the most populous country in Africa to its knees.

“We, as a responsible organisation, committed to the advancement of Blacks all over the world, cannot but express our grave disappointment in the manner that state apparatus under the present administration has gone far under.

“We also frown at the activities of non-state actors who are seemingly keen on turning the Northwestern and Southeastern parts of Nigeria into another theater of war and terror as we presently have in the Northeastern part of the country. We call for restraint in the Southeast whose people have genuine grievances of marginalisation; elected officials and representatives from the Southeast can no longer afford to play the Ostrich, they must take a lead in the demand for justice and equity from Federal authorities.

“Efforts must be intensified to rein in and stamp out the activities of bandits in the Northwest who have recently imported their activities to the fringes of the Federal Capital Territory.”