On April 14, 2014, 276 Nigerian female students of the Chibok Girls Secondary School were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists. It was a very disturbing moment for Nigeria and the rest of the world. Most of the abducted girls were Christians.
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A former Chairman of Transparency International Nigeria and ex-Chief of Army Operations, Training and Plans, Major General Ishola Williams (retd.), said the job of the military was not to go after bandits.
Rather, he said fight against bandits was the duty of the Mobile Police – the paramilitary arm of the Nigeria Police Force designated to take over operations of major crisis where conventional police units cannot cope.
“It’s not the job of the military to run after criminals. The military was created to run after insurgents. It is wrong to be using the military in cases of banditry,” Williams told
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Published: 02 Mar 2021 04:30 PM BdST
Updated: 02 Mar 2021 04:30 PM BdST A classroom furniture is seen arranged inside the hall at the Government Science College in Kagara, Niger state, Nigeria Feb 18, 2021. REUTERS
When nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped from their boarding school by the Islamic group Boko Haram in 2014, the world exploded in outrage. Hundreds marched in the country’s capital, the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls was picked up by then first lady Michelle Obama and Nigeria’s president scrambled to respond to the mass abduction in the village of Chibok. );
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It seemed an aberration. But since last December, mass kidnappings of girls and boys at boarding schools in northwest Nigeria have been happening more and more frequently at least one every three weeks. Just last Friday, more than 300 girls were taken from their school in Zamfara state, and the week before, more than 40 children and adults were abducted from