A former Minister of Education , Oby Ezekwesili , has alleged that the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari created the abduction of over 300 schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State .
She said the President and his government should not be congratulated over the release of the schoolboys after six days in captivity .
Ezekwesili said this on Friday night during an interview with
Channels Television.
The former minister, who is one of the Co -Conveners of the
Bring Back Our Girls group which led the demonstrations for the rescue of over 250 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State , said the Buhari regime must tell Nigerians exactly what happened in Kankara when gunmen on motorcycles attacked the school and abducted hundreds of students .
The abduction occurred some hours after the President arrived in Daura , Katsina on December 11 for a week -long private visit.
Katsina State Governor , Aminu Masari , however , announced on Thursday that 344 schoolboys were released by bandits in Zamfara State .
But while Nigerians delight in the news of the released schoolboys, Ezekwesili said Buhari should be disgusted with what happened .
She said , “ For us to congratulate a government that created a problem and said it solved it? We shouldn ’ t be doing that . The society should learn how to hold people accountable. The President should be disgusted with what happened , not commending himself. What is he clapping for ? Those children were put in harm’ s way. And now he said he’ s rescued them ? Maybe the President sent the children on an excursion to terrorists so they can release children at will to him .
“ He needs to tell us exactly what happened with the Kankara kids . There is a problem. This country should not be taken for a ride by President Buhari and his government . This is very unbecoming and the whole world is laughing at us . They think we are jokers . Many countries didn ’ t even bother to show that anything had happened in our country because they felt who are these people and what are they doing to themselves?”
The Kankara students ’ abduction is not the first in the history of the nation . Non – state actors had in the past abducted hundreds of secondary school girls from Chibok , in Borno State ; and Dapchi in Yobe State . Some of them eventually regained freedom while a number of them were detained in the enclaves of their abductors and sexual abusers .
