Former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) has lament the spate of insecurity in the country.
The former leader while receiving officials of the Niger State chapter of the Campaign for Democracy and Human Rights led by its state chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Jabi at his Minna uphill residence in Niger State, asked if terrorists kidnapping and traumatising school children would be happy if the same is being done to their children.
Abdulsalami noted that incessant attacks on schools have set education in the northern part of the country backward by 20 years.
According to him, many children of school age can no longer go to school while those in schools are being kidnapped.
He said; “Insecurity has taken education in the north back 20 years. We are facing serious insecurity some heartless people keep kidnapping our children. forgetting that they too have children
“Will they be happy if their children are kidnapped and traumatised?”
Abdulsalami also blamed the poor economic situation in the country on the effect of the COVID-19. He added;
“COVID-19 became a stumbling block to the world; COVID-19 brought a setback to all our programmes.”
He also recalled how he was locked outside the country for over nine months, resulting in most of his plans facing setbacks.
Meanwhile, the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the persistent attacks on schools in the North is threatening the education of school children, particularly the girl-child.
Lawan made this claim at the first solo exhibition of paintings and photographs by Stephen, son of Senator Binos Dauda Yaroe (Adamawa South), Naija News reports.
