Nigerian parents pray for the safe return of their children kidnapped on July 5, 2021. | Screenshot: Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Los padres de los más de 140 estudiantes secuestrados de un internado cristiano en Nigeria han estado realizando una vigilia fuera de la escuela, clamando a Dios y orando por el regreso seguro de sus hijos y el personal.
Atacantes armados invadieron la escuela secundaria Bethel Baptist High School en el estado de Kaduna, en el noroeste de Nigeria, alrededor de la 1:45 a.m. del lunes, el día en que los estudiantes de último año estaban programados para tomar sus exámenes finales, según Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
• Group says initiative lacks legal backing
Disturbed by worsening insecurity in the region, the Southeast Governor’s Forum recently endorsed Ebube agu as an alternative security outfit.
However, barely 24 hours after the endorsement, the International Society for Civil and Rule of Law, has faulted the belated floating of the outfit, describing it as suspicious and inoperable.
Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of the group, Emeka Umeagbalasi said the panicky and hurried announcement of the new security outfit by the Southeast Governors’ Forum was discomforting, noting that the establishment of Ebube agu came at a time “when all hopes have been lost from state actor angles, forcing most citizens of the region to place their hopes, expectations and solutions in non-state actors.”