AFRIQUECAN: THE Arewa Consultative Forum – ACF, claims that Thursday’s Abduction of 287 students in Kaduna State appears to have been planned by the bandits.
Bandits had stormed LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School and taken away the students at Kuriga community in Chikun Local Government Area of the state.
In a Saturday statement on Saturday, the ACF called on the Federal Government to go beyond perfunctory directives to the security agencies to rescue the abductees.
The forum also condemned Friday’s attack by bandits at a mosque in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of the state which left two people dead. It described the assault as a sad reminder of the unabated presence of the bandits.
As a result of the attacks, the ACF is calling on a multi-prolonged regional strategy against bandits and terrorists. According to the body, the security forces should never dither or stay on the course of plain ineptitude and ineffectiveness that characterise the current strategy to contain terrorism in Nigeria.
The forum demanded the immediate deployment of new measures, including the much-discussed Special Schools Security Scheme, the schools’ vigilante force, and anti-kidnapping squads among others across the terror-prone states.
