Spate Of Killings, Kidnappings, General Insecurity Is Unbearable – CNNC Laments
BY AMOS TAUNA, KADUNA – The Congress of Northern Nigeria Christians (CNNC), has expressed deep concern over the increased spate of insecurity in Nigeria particularly in northern Nigeria.
CNNC said that what Nigerians are going through as a result of unchecked insecurity cannot be measured and therefore called on the federal government to urgently take decisive measures to arrest the situation.
The Congress said that it is with heavy heart that it is compelled to make contributions to the happenings in the country, particularly in Northern Nigeria following the incessant killings that has become the order of the day.
It noted that the increased killings and kidnappings in the society has indeed become a thing of great concern, saying that everybody is leaving in fear as they do not know what will happen in the next second.
These were contained in a statement by the Kaduna State Chairman and Secretary of the Congress, Elder Bulus Dogara, and Rev. Eugene Luka Adamu respectively, in which they further called on President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State to please match words with action to ensure that insecurity is dealt with in order to give the people the confidence to move freely in search of their means of livelihood.
The congress said that it has become necessary because wherever there is peace there will be rapid development in no small measure, hence the plea of Congress of Northern Nigeria Christians, Kaduna state chapter for government to take decisive steps to ensure the security of people and property.
The CNNC said that most worrisome, is the recent happenings in which the dare devil bandits developed different strategies in the kidnap of students in Kaduna State like it happened at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna and Greenfield University, Kaduna, where students were kidnapped and millions of naira were paid as ransom apart from those killed.
The Congress said of recent, the kidnapping of students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, in Chukun Local Government Area where small children were kidnapped and to date they are in the hands of their abductors in the bush in harsh environment that they are made to forcibly face for offence they did not commit, lamenting that the kidnappers also went to Faith Academy but thank God they were repelled by security agencies.
According to CNNC; “The insecurity in the state is so terrifying that in Zango Kataf Local Government Area, Katsit, Kibori, Warkan and other villages have all fallen into the hands of bandits and kidnappers operating at will with lives and properties destroyed.
“As stakeholders in the project called Nigeria that prays for the peaceful coexistence of the society, the continued abduction of students is a bad omen by opening the eyes of these little ones to what they are going through in the hands of bandits and the fear is that the young ones grow to know criminality in their lives.
“The future of education in the North is seriously being bastardized as the future of the youth is so uncertain,” it said.
The statement noted that with the way insecurity is growing, it has become almost impossible for farmers to go to the farm and the general movement of people to go about their normal way of life is being denied thereby increasing poverty in the land and making an already bad situation worse.
The Congress specifically noted that the recent kidnapped of the chief of Kajuru and others is an indication that nobody is safe in the country, lamenting that Nigeria is fast becoming a land where all evil things happen unabated.
