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The Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukeman, has recommended severe sanctions for security personnel, traditional and religious leaders in communities ravaged by kidnappings and banditry.
He described last Friday’s abduction of over 500 students of Government Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State, as a shameful national security embarrassment.
According to him, none of these spectacular security breaches could happen without some form of collaboration with security, community and religious leaders in affected areas.
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This was contained in a statement titled, ‘Nigeria’s National Security Embarrassment Must be Brought to an End,’ which he signed and made public, in Abuja, on Tuesday.
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Oby Ezekwesili, a former minister of education has told President Muhammadu Buhari to leave his cows in Daura and prioritise the lives of students of Government Secondary School Kankara abducted recently in his State, Katsina.
Ezekwesili expressing her outrage over the abduction, asked Buhari to stop being inhuman and coldly indifferent and rescue the students from the insurgents.
The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG convener making reference to the kidnap of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram, urged the president to seek the support of the US military immediately and save the students.
Ezekwesili took to her Twitter page and said, “President Buhari should leave his cows for once in preference for the lives of his fellow human beings. It is inhuman for a supposed leader of a country to be as uncaring as you are to the latest cries of parents of 333 Kankara boys . Why are you so inhuman Buhari?
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The Zamfara State government has ordered the immediate closure of 10 secondary schools in n areas neighbouring Katsina State.
Addressing newsmen in his office on Tuesday evening, the state Commissioner for Education, Dr Abdullahi Ibrahim Gusau, said the closure was as a result of recent abduction of students at Government Secondary School Kankara of Katsina State.
According to him, Governor Bello Mohammed Mattawale has approved the closure of 10 schools that includes seven boarding and three day secondary schools in the state.
The list of schools closed as from Tuesday includes G.S.S.TSAFE (boarding), G.S.S B/MAGAJI (boarding), G.D.S.S NASARAWA MAILAYI (day), G.D.S.S GUSAMI (day), G.A.S.S ZURMI (boarding), G.D.S.S GURBINBORE (day), G.G.S.S MORIKI (boarding), Science Secondary School SHINKAFI (boarding), Science Secondary School D/SADAU (boarding), and Science Secondary School BUKKUYUM (boarding).
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A source in the school said, “in the junior section, there are six classes, comprising JSS 1A, which has 58 students, 1B, which has 62 students and 1C, which has 64 students; JSS 2A has 74 students, 2B has 79 students and 2C has 75 students.
Parents gather during a meeting at the Government Science School in Kankara yesterday, after gunmen abducted students from the school in Katsina State on Friday night
“As for the senior section, we have seven classes, which include SS1A, 97; 1B, 108; 1C, 106 and 1D, 118. While in SS2, we have 2A, 74; 2B, 79 and 2C, 80, giving a total of 1074 students.”
Residents of Kankara observe as an air force helicopter conveying the federal government’s delegation landed along Katsina road in the state on Sunday