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In my two previous articles, I labored under the burden of insecurity strangulating the very soul of the nation and the inability of the leadership to address the issue. Today I have to write on the implications of insecurity and you are free to call them the trilogy of Nigeria`s pitiable security situation. I talked about the raging herdsmen inferno and the looming prospect of a failed state. Events are happening in the nation in such rapidity is that we are simply limping from one crisis to another.
The armed bandits have become so bold that with effortless ease, they stroll into any boarding secondary school and take the students and workers as hostages and the military and the security operatives are in offensive slumber. The list is becoming a catalogue of evils. Three hundred and seventy girls were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara last Friday. Before then was the abduction of forty-two school child
At least three people were reportedly shot as the event in the northwestern town of Jangebe, Nigeria descended into chaos, according to local media reports. It is unclear if anyone was killed.
May 20, 2014: The Borno State government set up a N150 million special fund for the rehabilitation of the 57 Chibok girls who had escaped.
October 16, 2014: The former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, an air vice-marshal, said the federal government had reached a ceasefire deal with leaders of Boko Haram and that the 216 girls in their captivity would soon be released. But Boko Haram leaders quickly denied the claim.
November 2, 2014: Boko Haram leader, Mr Shekau, released a video in which he declares that all the 216 girls in his custody had been converted to Islam and married off. He also denied ever negotiating with the federal government concerning the girls.
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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has dispatched two helicopters and operatives for the rescue of about 317 abducted schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara State.
The IG also disclosed that the military, police and the Department of State Services operatives have commenced a coordinated search towards the rescue of the schoolgirls.
Suspected bandits in Hilux vehicles and a number of motorcycles had, on Friday, kidnapped over 300 students of Government Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talatar Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara.
A statement by the force spokesman, Frank Mba, titled, ‘Police commence coordinated search and rescue operation for abducted Zamfara schoolgirls,’ said the deployment was in addition to the personnel of Operation Puff Adder II earlier drafted to Zamfara State to support efforts by the command to combat banditry, kidnappings and ot
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has condemned the abduction of 317 school children in Zamfara state, regretting that in spite of assurances from the federal government that it will end banditry and kidnappings, the lives of Nigerians are becoming more endangered everyday.