- By Femi Alabi
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has expressed confidence that the National Security Adviser to the President, Nuhu Ribadu and other security agencies will ensure the release of the abducted students by bandits.
Okonjo-Iweala spoke in Abuja on Tuesday during the launch of the WTO-ITC 2024 technical assistance programme for Nigeria.
She expressed sadness over the mass abduction of students and teachers in the country, adding that education is very crucial to economic development.
“I am sad because I am here at a time when once more hundreds of our school children and teachers have been abducted,” Okonjo-Iweala said.
“As a mother, grandmother educator and someone for whom education is paramount to creating economic opportunities, I am sad.
“And with the representative of my brother, the national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, I hope we can be able to recover them soon in Kaduna and Sokoto.”
Despite recent efforts by security operatives to combat banditry and terrorism, cases of attacks, killings and abductions are still recorded in parts of the country.
Recall that over 200 students were recently abducted after bandits invaded the Government Secondary School Kuriga in Chikun LGA of Kaduna.
In a related development, bandits also strucked in Gidan Bakuso in Gada Local Government Area of Sokoto State, abducting about 15 Tsangaya students
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