Bring Abductors Of Niger Students To Justice - Amnesty International Tells FG

 

Amnesty International has condemned the Wednesday’s abduction of 42 persons by gunmen at the Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, saying attacks on schools undermine right to education.

Its director, Osai Ojigho, urged the Federal Government to bring to justice, those responsible for the abduction and other human rights abuses, adding that the latest development has clearly shown that authorities are not doing enough to protect lives.

“We condemn this appalling assault, that's the state-of-the-art in a string of attacks on schools in northern Nigeria. Attacks on faculties and abductions of youngsters are war crimes. Those located to be liable for the kidnapping have to be introduced to justice for those and different human rights abuses.

“That that is coming most effective about three months after a comparable incident at a college in Kankara, Katsina country, shows that authorities are not doing sufficient to shield lives. The youngsters abducted are in extreme risk of being harmed.

“Nigerian government should take all measures to go back them to protection, in conjunction with all kids currently under the custody of armed corporations. Education is under assault in northern Nigeria.

“Schools must be places of safety, and no baby must must select between their schooling and their existence. Other kids have needed to abandon their schooling after being displaced by means of common violent assaults on their communities, and many instructors were pressured to escape to different states.

“The Nigerian authorities ought to act without delay to prevent assaults on schools, to defend youngsters’s lives and their proper to education.

“The safety of kids’s lives is paramount, and the Nigerian authorities has a responsibility to make sure that the united states of america’s academic sector isn't similarly threatened via armed groups on rampage throughout northern Nigeria.

“The assault on Government Science College Kagara is a critical violation of worldwide humanitarian law and it undermines the right to training for hundreds of children in northern Nigeria.

“The abduction of college students by using armed companies can critically lessen the availability of and get admission to to schooling for lots kids in northern Nigeria where violent assaults are escalating.”