From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has Commended security forces for their gallant response to the abduction of students of the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS), stopping the bandits in their sordid mission.
The National Publicity Secretary Prof. T. A. Muhammad-Baba stated this yesterday in his reaction to the abduction of mostly female students of the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS).
ACF also called on the security forces not to relent in the efforts to contain banditry and terrorism in Zamfara State and elsewhere in the country
The Forum, however, stated that Urges the Federal Government to rejig Nigeria’s security architecture and to come up with new multi-pronged containment strategies against security and related existential threats bedeviling schools and indeed all communities. Such new strategies should aim at the total eradication of the scourge of banditry and terrorism countrywide.
“ACF condemns the abductions in the strongest of terms. It is very disconcerting that such a most unfortunate criminal incident is not the first of its kind in memory, but it certainly is one abduction far too many to occur in any community in Nigeria, nor elsewhere in the world.
“The incident is even more worrisome, being of far-reaching negative implications, among many others, for access to education which, especially for the girl-child, is subject to many formidable challenges in the best of times.”
