Atiku To Tinubu: Stop Celebrating Release Of Abducted Kebbi Sch Girls

Few hours after the release of the abducted school girls from Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga Kebbi state Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president has slammed the federal government for celebrating their release.

According to him, the fact that the students were captured by bandits was a failure on the part of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.

The former vice president made the remark in a statement issued by his media office on Wednesday, saying the fact that terrorists now dictate for the federal government what it should is a testimony that the Tinubu administration is no longer in control.

The magazine had earlier reported that all the school girls were freed following negotiation between the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA and Department of State Services, DSS after spending days in the captivity of the bandits who abducted them from their school on November 17.

President Tinubu said on Tuesday, following their release that he was happy that the girls have been delivered from captivity.

According to Abubakar, the federal government should stop celebrating its “incompetence as heroism” saying the administration is boasting of negotiating with terrorists instead of eliminating them, like other serious nations do.

“Why is the government boasting about talking to terrorists instead of eliminating them? Why is kidnapping now reduced to a routine phone call between criminals and state officials?” Abubakar said..

He stressed that “terrorists and bandits have become an alternative government, negotiating, collecting ransom, and walking away untouched, while the presidency celebrates their compliance.”

“No serious nation applauds itself for negotiating with terrorists it claims to have under surveillance. No responsible government congratulates itself for allowing abductors to walk back into the forests to kidnap again.”

Apart from the Kebbi school girls who have now been reunited with their families, many students kidnapped by bandits , on 21 November,   from St Mary’s School in Papiri, Niger State have yet to regain their freedom. Out of the 312 students said to have been kidnapped, few of them had escaped, security agencies are still on the trail of the bandits, the government said.