Tom Okpe, Abujà
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has task security agencies in the country to dig deeper and do better by ensuring that students go to school without fear or molestation from any quarter.
The National Chairman, APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC Mai Mala Buni stated in Abuja on Tuesday that as the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari is working to improve the security situation in the country, “the APC calls on the nation’s security agencies to dig deeper and do better by ensuring that our students can go to school safely and learn across the country.
“There is no greater harm that insecurity can do to a nation than to destroy its education and the future of its youths.”
Buni assured that, “on our part, the APC will continue to work with the federal government, security agencies, governors, emirs, community leaders and all other stakeholders to address and improve the security situation in the country.”
The APC Chairman who spoke at the party Secretariat in respect of last Friday incident where more than 500 students were abducted from Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State said;
“On Sunday, the nation learnt again that more than 330 of those students are still missing.
“This is a particularly sad and difficult moment not just for the families of the student victims and the government and people of Katsina State but the entire country. Our thoughts and prayers are therefore with the victims and their families as well as the government and people of Katsina State.”
The party lamented that the abduction brings to mind the sad incidents in Chibok and Dapchi in Borno and Yobe States respectively a few years ago where students undergoing their studies and working hard to become leaders of tomorrow were abducted by insurgents and made to go through appallingly harrowing experiences.
“The APC believe that the security agencies have the will, commitment, and training to restore public confidence in their ability to secure lives and property of Nigerians. They should therefore demonstrate this commitment by more robustly going after criminals and denying them the space to perpetrate crime.”
Buni urges Nigerians to continue to partner with the federal government and the security agencies so that, “we can together restore peace and sanity on our streets, roads, and all across the nooks and crannies of the country,” adding that the ongoing efforts to free the abducted GSSS Kankara students will be successful.
