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From Jude Owuamanam, Jos
Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has berated the Federal Government over the abduction of 25 school girls from Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS) Maga, located in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area, in which the Vice-Principal was killed
Also Special Envoy on Peace and Security to Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, Prof Chris Kwaja, has described the abduction of school girls as sad times
Both spoke to our Correspondent in separate interviews in Jos.
Kwaja said it’s unfortunate that the Federal Government “Is yet to address school related abductions. Security at the sub national level is still weak. It should go beyond the military talking about security in Abuja, and strengthening inter governmental synergy that allows for other locally driven solutions – intelligence and action, between the federal, state and local governments.”
Kwaja advocated for citizens led policing as the key to solving insecurity problems in Nigeria key.
However Dalung struck a harder knock. He said that the recent attack on the school, reminiscent of abduction of Chibok girls has opened a pandora box about the security situation in Nigeria.
Dalung said, “The attack on Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS) Maga in Kebbi state where a huge number of girls have been kidnapped, the principal killed, is another opening of a Pandora box about the security situation in Nigeria.
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“The government has been living in self denial and the government is professional in lying and propaganda especially with even the precious lives of citizens.
“Citizens are killed and the government is not at all willing to do anything about it. Government has not demonstrated the political will to deal with the situation but rather id deploying massive lies and propaganda to try to mislead the outside world about the situation.
“It is unfortunate that this is happening again these girls have been taken into the bush just like the Chibok girls and of course nobody knows what will happen to them.
“It’s a sad development and this is why some of us have argued that we have surrendered our sovereignty to the criminal gangs and so we lack the moral high ground to complain of Nigeria being a sovereign nation.
“I’m devastated with the news of the abduction of another round of secondary school girls synonymous with the Chibok girls’ abduction. 12 years of this development repeating itself is a an indication that Nigeria is a failed state and that there is no political will by the Nigerian state to protect our children.
“It is an attack on the girls,;It is an attack on education and by extension an attack on our civilization.
“And I believe, too, that these girls. will go the same way Chibol girls have gone, because some of them are still in captivity up to this time that we are talking.
“I am indeed disappointed that every day we wake up with semantics, military semantics of kinetic and non-kinetic, signing of peace deals with terrorists, or reintegrating born again terrorists as repentant terrorists, even recruiting them into some of our services.
“And yet we wake up with this type of development. It’s indeed a national disaster.”
