By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Uba Sani has called for prayers for victims still in the hands of kidnappers, terrorists and bandits, saying his heart bleeds for them.
In a special Sallah message by the lawmaker, he expressed deep concern over the horrible situation of the abducted students of Greenfield University in Kaduna, Leah Sharibu and Chibok girls amongst other children under terrorists captivity.
“As we celebrate, let us spare a moment for our children who are still held captive by kidnappers, terrorists and bandits. My heart bleeds for the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, Leah Sharibu, the Chibok Girls and other children held captive across the country”, the lawmaker said.
21 Nigerian Chibok School Girls Freed
President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson Mallam Garba Shehu says the terrorist sect Boko Haram has released 21 of the more than 270 female students kidnapped from a secondary school in the town of Chibok in north eastern Nigeria in April 2014. President Buhari said, “As I depart Abuja for Germany on an Official Visit, I welcome the release of 21 of our Chibok Girls, following successful negotiations.”Lire aussi : 49e Fête nationale : pas de cérémonies officielles
The release on Thursday, October 13, 2016 was “the outcome of negotiations between the administration and the Islamist militants,” BBC quoted Garba Shehu as having specified. The freed girls, he said were with the Department of State Services, Nigerian domestic intelligence agency. CNN said the girls were taken to the Borno State capital, Maiduguri where they will meet with the Governor. The girls were not immediately named. The agency chief, CNN cited Garba Shehu as
Eddy Odivwri
Last week, I promised to revisit an interview the then Gen Mohammadu Buhari granted this newspaper, in December 2014, as he was yet aspiring to win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The interview which was published as “Presidential Series” was aimed at presenting the ‘repented’ Buhari to the voting public. He had borne the dark patch of being a military dictator, in his ‘first missionary journey” to save Nigeria. So, his publicists were not only so keen to present a re-oriented and more tolerant Buhari to the public, but also to project a man with a kind of Deus ex Machina capacity to fix Nigeria and her many ills.
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Frustration and anxiety have driven major opinion leaders to a dead end of options on our worsening insecurity. President Buhari is being asked to literally outsource Nigeriaâs internal security operations to some foreign power. Wole Soyinka, ever the incurable patriot, has pointedly suggested that the worsening security situation leaves Buhari no better option than to seek external military help. Similarly, on the floor of the Senate on April 27th, Senator Smart Adeyemi, an APC member, passionately pleaded with the president to waive sovereign pretensions and seek security assistance from whoever in the world can and is ready to render it. Predictably, even on a matter as existential and dire as this, the Nigerian Senate could not generate an informed debate let alone find a bipartisan common ground.