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By Olumide T. Agunbiade
Back in April 16, 2014, about 230 school girls were abducted
under the cover of darkness in Chibok by Boko Haram sect. Sadly, they are still
under captive despite the daily global appeal for their release.
The reason that these terrorist group
were able to capture such number of
innocent girls was because Chibok lack educational institutions and
facts indicate that Government Secondary School, Chibok is the secondary school in Chibok, Bornu State.
Sadly, 10 parents of the missing girls have
been buried since the incident after their bravery in search of their children failed while the government claims that the
near-daily air strikes of the rebel forest stronghold could endanger the lives
of the missing kids.
According to rights group, Boko Haram
uses kidnapped girls and women to replace their wives and to run errands for
them. Sadly, these innocent girls are under the captive of mean, heartless and
dangerous sect that believes that women should be at home raising children
rather than be at school.
Today, this issue has generated huge
debate and sparked nationwide protest among Nigerian women who have demanded
for the immediate release of the school girls.
As a nation, Nigeria is currently caught in
the web of crime dilemma, manifesting in the raging increase in both violent
and non-violent crimes. But the most alarming and terrifying is the present
escalation of violent crimes and the barbarity, lethality and trauma the
perpetrators unleash on innocent people across the length and breadth of the
country.
Notable in this regard are the rising
incidents of robbery, assassination and ransomed-driven kidnapping.
The objectives of the Nigerian
government have consistently been the promotion of a better, healthier nation
of expanding social, economic and political freedom for all, regardless of
ethnicity, religion and region.”
Today, many social analysts are
drawing a parallel between the current political violence and crimes in Nigeria
and countries infamous for it like Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia, where various
drug gangs and Marxist guerrillas are wrecking havoc.
Considering the human cost of the
upwardly growing level of grave crimes like bombings, armed robbery and
assassination in places like Abuja, Kano, Adamawa, Lagos, Ibadan, Benin-City,
Yenagoa, Port-Harcourt, Onitsha, Aba and Uyo, the nation may have reached a
point of comparism with these nations.
According to BBC, families who have
been searching for the missing kids said they met no Nigerian military in the
forest.
So far, the rampant level of violent
crimes in Nigeria has cast doubt on the political will of some of those in the
corridors of power in the country to protect the citizens through the law
enforcement agencies, especially the Nigerian Police Force, which is
constitutionally charged with maintaining law and order.
Besides, President Jonathan has
admitted that the Nigerian military have not been modernized in decades and
while his administration is modernizing the national defense capabilities, the
law enforcement agencies are engaged in a global war on terror.
On behalf of the affected parents, I
am using this medium to plead to the government to intensify effort at
releasing the kids abducted in Chibok, Borno State because they are the joy of
their parents and the future of their country.
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