The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday condemned, in the strongest terms, the attacks and abductions of schoolchildren at the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS), Maga, Kebbi State.
The latest abduction occurred in the Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, where bandits killed the Vice Principal, Hassan Makuku, and abducted 25 students.
Ini Ememobong, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, described the tragic incident as further highlighting the alarming rise in insecurity that has become the lived reality of the majority of Nigerians under the Tinubu-led APC administration.
He noted that the administration has “consistently preferred the politicisation of governance over the protection of citizens. When a government fails in its primary duty of safeguarding lives and property, it must accept responsibility and deal decisively with the issues, rather than act aloof or attempt to deflect from the core issues, as this administration has repeatedly done.”
The party, however, commiserated with the parents of the abducted students; the family of the slain Vice Principal; as well as the staff, students, and management of the affected school; and the government of Kebbi State.
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“Apart from this highly disturbing Maga school incident, other abductions have taken place in Nasarawa, Plateau, Kano, and Katsina in recent times, and this is clearly not the hope, renewed or ‘unrenewed’ promised to Nigerians.”
The party called on President Tinubu to devote urgent and sufficient attention to securing the lives and property of Nigerians to avoid the tragic cycle of kidnappings and abductions.
