The Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu has called on the federal government to take necessary actions to curtail the continuous abduction of students from schools.
While lamenting the deteriorating and alarming state of insecurity in the country, Ojukwu said the frequent abduction of students undermine the right to education the government has signed into the safe schools declaration for children which he refers to as the bedrock of national development.
Ojukwu also called for enforcement of recommended punishment for kidnappers according to extant laws, in order to nip in the bid the ugly trend which is fast becoming the order of the day.
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He implore family of affected people to be calm as government will do all within its reach to rescue the abducted students and their teachers including the families that were abducted.
The Kagara kidnap came few weeks after the kidnap of 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State.
Editor Paul Akhagbemhe
