“It is my prayer that the abducted women and children are rescued at the soonest and I have no doubt that both Governor Sani and Governor Zulum, in conjunction with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (@officialABAT) and our security agencies and Armed Forces, will ensure that this is done.
A former female Presidential, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies has condemned and mourned the abduction of over 280 school girls in Ganboru, Borno State and Kaduna state, describing it as ‘alarming, overwhelming and humbling’ while calling for “an end to this Islamist Jihadists Agenda by terrorists to stabilize the Nigeria, nation. It was reported that, “Over 100 females, plus staff members, totalling over 280 persons, kidnapped by terrorists from IDP camps in Nigeria.”
The Christian Mother, Funmilayo said she has since remained, shocked, dazed, mute and speechless. Yet to recover after reading all these news.
Adesanya-Davies, while soberly and sadly reflecting on and reacting to the incidence, says, “she agrees with former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode that, “the abductions are a declaration of “WAR against Nigeria and we must fight it courageously, vigorously and mercilessly and take NO prisoners!”
Femi Kayode had tweeted, “Events in Gamboru Ngala in Borno State, Northern Nigeria where dozens of women were abducted by Islamist terrorists a few days ago and in Kuriga, Kaduna state where no less than 280 school girls were abducted from their school again by Islamist terrorists in the early hours of this morning are deeply troubling.”
“My heart goes out to the women and young girls that were kidnapped, to their husbands, parents and relatives, to Governor Uba Sani (@ubasanius) of Kaduna, to Governor Babagana Zulum (@ProfZulum) of Borno and the leaders, traditional rulers and people of both states.”
“I wholeheartedly condemn these shameful and cowardly abductions and I call for the summary execution and extrajudicial elimination of all terrorists and kidnappers.
Adesanya-Davies reinstates,
“This is a WAR and we must fight it courageously, vigorously and mercilessly and take NO prisoners!”
“Every single one of these cruel, callous, bloodthirsty and evil terrorist beasts that target, murder and abduct our innocent and defenceless women and children and that terrorise our people must be utterly crushed, decimated and annihilated and, in a glorious hail of gunfire and bombs, despatched back to hell where they belong.
“I have no doubt that these attacks and abductions are being co-ordinated by forces both within and outside Nigeria in an attempt to destabilise our country and undermine our Government and we need to rise to the occasion, expose them as quickly and expeditiously as possible and hit them with everything that we have got.
“It is my prayer that the abducted women and children are rescued at the soonest and I have no doubt that both Governor Sani and Governor Zulum, in conjunction with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (@officialABAT) and our security agencies and Armed Forces, will ensure that this is done.
“Vanguard reported how over 200 students of LEA primary school were kidnapped in Kaduna on Thursday, days after over 280 girls were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, in what could be described as a renewed insurgent attack on public schools in northern Nigeria.
In a similar vein, over 17 people were killed early Friday in Benue and five policemen lost their lives to a gunmen attack in Ebonyi state on Friday, highlighting the rise in insecurity in Nigeria
More than hundred females were reportedly kidnapped when Boko Haram insurgents stormed internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ngala, the headquarters of Gambarou Ngala in Borno State
Quoting a security source, _Daily Trust_ put the number of persons abducted by the terrorists at 113.
The newspaper further stated that the incident happened last Sunday, when the women went to fetch firewood in the bush for domestic and commercial purposes.
“They were surrounded by the insurgents in Bula kunte bush in the western part of Ngala town. They freed the old-aged and entered the bush with 319 abled young girls and some young boys.
“But, three of the girls who escaped and returned to Ngala said the boys (insurgents) took them to a bush close to Bukar-mairam village in Chad republic.
“They escaped in the dead of night after the insurgents fell asleep, trekking for two days before they arrived in Ngala.
“Most of the IDPs girls abducted were from Babban Sansani camp, and the rest from Zulum and Arabic camps.
“They went to the bush to fetch firewood for sale because the food we are getting from the camp is not enough to feed us. Life is so difficult here,” he said.
Another source from the security said it’s the economic pressure that forces most of them to go. They have no means of livelihood other than cutting off the tree for sale.
“This is one of the major abductions that took place in Borno, since the kidnapping of 276 girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, on the night of 14 April 2014.
It has been rightly observed “There are two reasons for the mass abductions and kidnappings that we are witnessing in our country today.
“Firstly to garner cash which is then sent abroad to buy more arms and fund terror and secondly to destabilise our country and to discredit and undermine the credibility of our President and the Federal Government.
“This is precisely what we witnessed when the Chibok girls and other children were abducted over the years and the motives are the same.
“There are numerous shady and sinister characters, international criminal cartels, foreign Governments and intelligence agencies and local accomplices and facilitators that are involved in this great evil.
“Nigeria has been targeted for destruction, division and disintegration by those that see us as a threat to their regional hegemony, strategic national interests and imperialist aspirations but most of us still don’t get it and perhaps never will.
It is time that we confront the matter with an iron hand and fight back to save Nigeria.
“Ask, who funds the terrorists and bandits and where do they get their weapons from?
“They did it in Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria and so many other countries over the years and decades and now they are doing it here.