- By Halimah Olamide
Amidst tension over fresh kidnappings in Nigeria, Amnesty International on Saturday said there are no indications that President Bola Tinubu has any effective plan of tackling the country’s security quagmire.
”People in Nigeria are increasingly living on a knife edge. Widespread insecurity has been exacerbated by routine abductions targeting children,” the organization said while expressing anger over kidnappings of schoolchildren and Internally Displaced people in Borno state.
The global body said mass abductions in Nigeria this week of more than 400 displaced persons in Borno state and 287 students and teachers in Kuriga Kaduna state are a shocking indictment of the authorities’ persistent failure to protect the people from attacks by armed groups.
It gave a chronicle of previous abductions in the country as the group said this development has limited the opportunities for the ordinary citizens.
It listed previous cases as :
1. Chibok abduction 14 April 2014
2. Dapchi abduction 19 Feb. 2018
3. Kankara abduction 11 Dec. 2020
4. Kagara abduction 17 Feb. 2021
5. Jangebe abduction 26 Feb. 2021
6. Kaduna abduction 11 March 2021
Birnin Gwari abduction 15 March 2021
8. Greenfield Univ. abduction 20 April 2021
9. Tegina abduction 30 May 2021
10. Kaduna abduction 5 July 2021
11. Yauri abduction 17 June 2021
12. Fed. Univ. Gusau 26 September 2023
13. Fed. Univ. Dutsin-Ma 4 October 2023
14. Kuriga Kaduna schools 7 March 2024
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