FG mourns as abductors gather extra N24m on Baptist school students
Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba
Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba
The Federal Government has communicated worry about the 299 students who are as yet being held by criminals months after their snatching.
The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, in a meeting with one of our reporters on Wednesday, depicted the intrusion of schools and grabbing of students as genuine issue, adding that the Federal Government was being wary in its moves to protect the students.
Nwajiuba expressed this as The PUNCH discovered that guardians of 80 students of Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Damishi, Kaduna State, who were as yet in scoundrels’ lair, contributed N300,000 each on Friday for the gangsters.
It was assembled that the criminals vowed to deliver the students this week in the wake of gathering the cash.
Review that criminals on July 5 attacked the school and stole in excess of 100 students.
On July 25, when 28 of the students were delivered, the leader of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev Israel Akanji, said 87 of them were as yet in bondage.
Giving an update in a meeting with The PUNCH on Wednesday, the Kaduna State section of the Christian Association of Nigeria said 80 of the students were all the while being held by the desperados.
Other than the Bethel Baptist schoolchildren, no less than guardians of the 83 students of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, who were snatched from their school 56 days prior, are as yet in criminals’ nook.
Additionally, around 136 students, who were snatched from an Islamic school at Tegina, Niger State in May, went through 71 days in desperados’ cave on Wednesday.
Communicating worry about the circumstance, the Minister of State for Education, Nwajiuba, disclosed to The PUNCH that administration was working with security organizations to protect the stole students.
We can’t go to desperados’ camps and bomb them with students – Minister
The priest expressed, “It is a security issue. You realize that the Chibok young ladies have been held for more than seven years. Grabbing of students is an intense matter. The public authority can’t singularly go there and begin besieging everyone.
“We would prefer not to lose the kids. In the event that we have felt free to begin bombarding many individuals, you may not have seen a portion of the Chibok young ladies back. They would have been killed.
“The public authority is above all else dependable to its residents. The way that they are held by criminals requires more alert.”
On his part, the Vice President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (19 Northern States and Abuja) and Kaduna State administrator, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, disclosed to The PUNCH that 80 students of the Bethel Baptist school were all the while being held by scoundrels.
He said, “We actually have 80 students of Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna with the desperados and we are interesting to all adoring and caring Nigerians to supplicate alongside us for a supernatural occurrence very soon.
“Their folks and kin need them back. The congregation likewise needs to see them back and all admirers of mankind need to hear that these youngsters are back.”
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