Afrigather The United Nations Kids Fund, UNICEF has condemned the kidnapping of scholars by bandits in Kaduna State.
It stated the alarming frequency of such incidents throughout the nation signalled a disaster that requires speedy and decided motion from all.
UNICEF stated it’s coordinating with native officers and offering help to the affected mother and father and households by way of psychological help companies.
Over 280 pupils and lecturers of Authorities Secondary Faculty and LEA major college at Kuriga, Kaduna State have been kidnapped by bandits.
The bandits reportedly invaded the Kuriga space of the Chikun Native Authorities Space of Kaduna State on Thursday, taking pictures at their victims earlier than taking away at the least 280 of the pupils and lecturers from each faculties.
UNICEF Consultant in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, in a press release stated, the alarming frequency of such incidents throughout the nation indicators a disaster that requires speedy and decided motion from all ranges of presidency and society.
Munduate stated, “I’m deeply saddened and anxious by the studies of one more abduction of scholars in Kaduna State. The alarming frequency of such incidents throughout the nation indicators a disaster that requires speedy and decided motion from all ranges of presidency and society. Colleges are purported to be sanctuaries of studying and progress, not websites of worry and violence.
“This newest abduction, as any beforehand, is very condemnable and a part of a worrying development of assaults on academic establishments in Nigeria, notably within the northwest, the place armed teams have intensified their marketing campaign of violence and kidnappings. Only a day previous to this incident, the UN Resident Coordinator spoke concerning the abductions of enormous numbers of ladies, ladies, and boys by members of a non-state armed group in Borno state.
