Is El-Rufai’s no-negotiation with kidnappers working ?
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Tue May 04 2021
The abduction and brutal killing of some of the students of Greenfield University is one of the many pictures of the North that is painted in the colour of blood. Coming at a time when students abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation are yet to be released by kidnappers, it highlights the depth to which we have descended in this trench of insecurity. This, to a very scary extent, is a head-on collision with the status of Kaduna State as Nigeria’s “Centre of Learning” given the large number of institutions of learning that the state is host to. In literal terms, Kaduna State is not just a centre of learning; it is also the heart of security training in Nigeria owing to the presence of military and security training institutions in the state, notably, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Airforce Institute of Technology, DSS Training School, and the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji.