Insecurity: CSO condemns kidnap of Katsina students
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People gather inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. PHOTO: AP
By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja
A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Incentive-Based Programme, IPB, of Policy House International, Monday, condemned the kidnap of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, by suspected bandits.
Expressing grief over the sad incident in a statement signed by the Executive Director, IBP, Taiwo Akerele, it described the kidnap as disgusting, reprehensible, insensitive, and inhuman as insecurity in the State has taken a new dimension.
The statement reads in part, “We are pained and distraught that while we are working hard to encourage parents to bring their children and wards back to school in the Nigeria North East especially on the backdrop of UNICEF’s estimated 10.5 million out of school children in Nigeria, (a figure we dispute), this happened again