The abduction of 317 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State on Friday is the latest episode of a phenomenon that is fast becoming commonplace in Nigeria.
The breakdown of security in the North-west and North-central regions of the country has led to a surge in kidnapping and banditry and added to the over a decade-old insurgency in the North-east.
Kidnapping is one of the most pervasive and intractable violent crimes in the country, experienced in less dramatic forms in the southern part of the country.
Nigeria has one of the global’s highest costs of kidnap-for-ransom cases globally. Over the years, this has endured regardless of the authorities vow to cope with the situation.
Different bands of outlaws are chargeable for the risk inside the North-west and North-imperative, in contrast to in the North-east where Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the 2 incidents in Chibok and Dapchi some years in the past.
Timeline
Here are some of the cases of mass kidnapping of schoolchildren in Nigeria inside the closing seven years and the events round them .
April 14, 2014: Boko Haram terrorists abducted masses of schoolgirls from their dormitories in Chibok, Borno State at a time the students have been writing their final yr exams. About fifty seven of the girls manage to escape at unique times even as on transit with their abductors.
April 16, 2014: The army stated squaddies had rescued over a hundred of the Chibok schoolgirls however speedy withdrew the declare after the college predominant, Asabe Kwambura, and the various mother and father of the abducted ladies refuted it.
May 12, 2014: Boko Haram releases the primary video of the abducted women, a development which confirmed that the women had been truly within the custody of the Abubakar Shekau-led terror institution. Mr Shekau within the video threatened to marry the girls off or use them as a part of his battle booty.
May 20, 2014: The Borno State authorities installation a N150 million unique fund for the rehabilitation of the 57 Chibok ladies who had escaped.
October 16, 2014: The former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, an air vice-marshal, said the federal government had reached a ceasefire cope with leaders of Boko Haram and that the 216 women of their captivity would soon be released. But Boko Haram leaders speedy denied the declare.
November 2, 2014: Boko Haram leader, Mr Shekau, released a video wherein he publicizes that every one the 216 girls in his custody were transformed to Islam and married off. He additionally denied ever negotiating with the federal authorities regarding the ladies.
March 24, 2015: A woman who escaped from Boko Haram captivity said some of the Chibok women have been being held someplace near Gwoza and that two of the ladies were killed for the duration of a army air strike on one of the terrorists’ places.
May 29, 2015: President Muhammadu Buhari, in his inaugural speech, promised to stop the Boko Haram insurgency and rescue the Chibok schoolgirls “within six months”.
August 29, 2015: President Buhari meets 90 of the dad and mom of the abducted Chibok women throughout which he restated his promise to rescue the ladies.
November 30, 2015: President Buhari during a media chat said there may be no “credible facts” at the whereabouts of the Chibok women, rushing hopes in their launch.
May 18, 2016: One of the abducted Chibok women, Amina Ali Nkeki, become observed together with her infant and a person she identified as her husband.
October 13, 2016: Boko Haram releases 21 Chibok ladies following negotiations.
January 5, 2017: Another Chibok woman, Rakiya Abubakar, is located together with her toddler, which brought to 23 the wide variety of the abducted ladies to have regained freedom.
May 2017: Another eighty two women are released in exchange for 5 Boko Haram commanders. Later that month, Boko Haram released a video wherein a lady in a black veil claiming to be one of the Chibok women brandishes a gun and broadcasts loyalty to the institution.
December 30, 2020: The Chibok community demands the discharge of the final schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity.
February 18, 2018: Nearly one hundred ten schoolgirls are kidnapped via Boko Haram terrorists in Dapchi metropolis of Yobe State.
February 20, 2018: The Nigerian authorities confirms that a hundred and ten schoolgirls are missing.
February 21, 2018: The Yobe State authorities announces the rescue of a number of the ladies and says they may be with the army.
February 22, 2018: The Yobe government retracts the announcement and apologises for deceptive the general public, saying “No girl was rescued.”
February 23, 2018: President Buhari calls the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Dapchi a ‘country wide disaster’.
February 25, 2018: The Nigerian Air pressure pronounces the deployment of aircraft and further personnel for seek and rescue missions.
March nine, 2018: Women hold a protest in Abuja three weeks after the kidnapping of the Dapchi schoolgirls.
March 12, 2018: President Muhammadu Buhari declares plan to negotiate the lady’s launch, rather than use navy pressure.
March 14, 2018: Mr Buhari makes first go to to Dapchi, assuring parents of the missing schoolgirls that the authorities will rescue the scholars.
March 20, 2018: Amnesty International claims Nigerian Army not noted repeated warnings of an attack on Dapchi town, hours earlier than the abductions.
March 21, 2018: The Nigerian authorities declares that 104 of the 110 schoolgirls were freed.
December 11, 2020: Suspected gunmen assault Government Boys Science Secondary School in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State and abduct over three hundred students.
December 12, 2020: the Katsina State government shuts all public faculties.
December 12, 2020: Mr Buhari speaks at the abductions.
December 16, 2020: Parents and guardians of the kidnapped schoolboys in Kankara said they had been upset with President Buhari and Governor Aminu Masari, who they stated had didn't make sure safety inside the nation.
December 17, 2020: The abducted Kankara students regain freedom.
December 18, 2020: The United States (U.S.) condemns the abduction of students, urging the Nigerian authorities to keep kidnappers responsible.
February 17, 2021: Suspected bandits abduct 27 college students and 15 others at Government Science School, Kagara in Niger State.
February 17, 2021: The federal government guarantees to take ‘political and military’ steps to stable the discharge of university college students.
February 17, 2021: The Nigerian Army stated its troops were in ‘hot chase’ of the bandits at the back of the abductions in Kagara.
February 19, 2021: The governor of Niger State said negotiation for the discharge of the kidnapped persons is at the very last level.
February 24, 2021: Kidnappers demanded ransom from sufferers’ mother and father and warn that the students may additionally starve to death if the ransom isn't always paid quick.
February 25, 2021: The governor of Niger State stated the Nigerian government is not ‘helping’ in the rescue of the abducted persons.
February 26, 2021: Bandits kidnap 317 woman college students of Government Girls Secondary School Jangebe, Zamfara State in an early morning raid on their college.
February 26, 2021: The Zamfara State authorities confirms the kidnapping.
February 26, 2021: The police confirm that 317 schoolgirls had been kidnapped in Jangebe.
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