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DAPCHI SCHOOLGIRLS: Sultan’s group brands Buhari govt as unserious
Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), a Muslim Group led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has described the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as being unserious.
The group which was reacting to the blame games involving Nigeria Military and the Police over the abduction of 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, 11 days ago by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, argued that “a serious government would have by now sanctioned those implicated in the Dapchi girls’ travails.”
In a statement in Kaduna State on Thursday by the Secretary General of JNI, Dr Abubakar Khalid-Ailyu, the group said that the abduction of the girls “is the most potent action to frustrate the girl-child education.”
JNI added, “No parent now is comfortable, especially in the North-East, to allow his daughter to go to such callously unprotected schools; and the North is the loser.”
Warning that government must not spare anyone found culpable in the abduction of the Dapchi girls, the group said that it was opposed to any probe, arguing that such always ended up in waste baskets.
The Muslim group further regretted that after four years of the unresolved Chibok girls’ abduction, that Nigeria was again witnessing “yet another unfortunate and avoidable abduction of Dapchi girls.”
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Blaming security operatives for the unfortunate development, the group said, “There is apparent lack of synergy between security operatives in Yobe State, or there is active connivance with the insurgents, especially if reports of media altercations between the army and the police are anything to go by.”
JNI then wondered why the abduction is coming just months before the 2019 general elections, in what it said was a resemblance of the Chibok girls’ abduction of 2014.
“Are there orchestrated plans somewhere to make a case for more security votes?” the group wondered.
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