By The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to eliminate the ravaging banditry and kidnapping in the northern part of the country which has since become a threat to education.
Speaking during its 65th Emergency Meeting, at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo Annex, Abakaliki capital of Ebonyi state, last weekend, NANS President, Comrade Sunday Asefon, made this known.
According to Daily Post, the student body expressed worries over the recent activities of bandits and kidnappers in the country, saying that insecurity in the northern region has disturbing dimensions and would tear the country apart if not checkmated.
“Now, these incessant attacks on students have become a threat to education. I told the Government that kidnappings and banditry in the Northeast is about sending education to the grave, in that region.
“This is also a threat to the future of students in that region. The leaders of that region should come together, irrespective of their religious and political inclinations, to address the situation. This is because the spates of banditry and kidnappings have become a cause of worry,” Asefon said.
He stressed that it was high time the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government took decisive and drastic measures to tackle the security challenges facing the country.
Asefon added, “We are calling on the Government to take decisive measures to address the situation, before it consumes us all. I’m not saying the Federal Government has failed to provide security to the citizenry, but it should take decisive and drastic measures to arrest the ugly situation.
“This ugly trend is alarming now and no one feels safe again, because the society is no longer safe. Down here in the South, you hear cases of women being raped and killed in their farms. Our roads are no longer safe. It’s terrible and it should cost our leaders sleepless nights, while thinking of how to bring it to an end.”
