NIGERIA’S WTO VICTORY TURNED SOUR WITH KAGARA SCHOOL KIDNAP!

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NIGERIA’S WTO VICTORY TURNED SOUR WITH KAGARA SCHOOL KIDNAP!

Nigerian bandits are sadistic killjoys! While the whole world rejoices that Nigeria has produced the very first female Director General of the prestigious UN World Trade Organization (WTO), those criminal delinquents struck early Wednesday, 17th February , 2021, to disrupt Western Education at the Government Secondary School [GSS], Kagara, Niger State!

They succeeded in abducting some teachers, an unspecified number of students and ferried them to, unknown destination!

This latest affront has further proved governments ineptitude to handle the holistic protection of citizens at all levels because the abduction of boarding school students have now become a recurring decimal considering the frequency [especially in the Northern States], and whereas, the Federal Government on whose shoulder rests the entire spectrum of the nation’s security architecture always claimed it “was doing its best”!

BUT contrary to such claims – even by the Commander-In-Chief - glaring derelictions, policy somersaults, lack of co-ordination between security agencies at the highest levels of command, operational discrepancies and outright mismanagement, of authentic, credible and reliable free citizens information from patriotic Nigerians, have remained the bane to meaningful operational success!

WE HAVE NOTICED A LABYRINTH OF OFFICIAL COLLUSION IN ALL OF THE ABDUCTIONS!

Beginning with CHIBOK, ex-president Ebele Jonathan, dismissed with a wave of the hand the breaking news report of 14/15 April, 2014  that  over 276 girl students of the girls secondary school were abducted by militant Islamic Boko Haram terrorists! In a recorded statement he said that the news was, “politically-motivated by the opposition to embarrass his administration” until he was proved wrong by ugly unfolding events! Comments: In spite of the campaign promises of his successor [President Muhammadu], to “bring back the girls”, over 100 of them are yet to be re-united with their families till date!
DAPCHI: One hundred and ten [110], students of the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Yobe  [GGSTC], abducted on 19th February, 2018, were rescued without payment of ransom, except for Leah Sharibu , a Christian who refused to renounce her faith, within few days of their abduction and has remained in the custody of Boko Haram terrorists for over two years? Comments: In all of these months, Federal and Yobe  State Governments are still making “frantic efforts” to actualize her release without success according to official sources though rumor has it that she was already a nursing mother having been married off to one of the bandits!
KANKARA: Bandits struck in Kankara, Katsina State, and abducted 350 boys out of about 800 boarding house residents of the Government Science Secondary on Friday 11th December, 2020, when President Buhari decided to visit his state on an official duty and succeeded to embarrass him and his overstretched, disoriented/disorganized security outfits! Comments: The cattle herders association MACBAN – which is an offshoot of Boko Haram terrorism – was engaged by the Federal/Katsina State Governments as official NEGOTIATOR and within Five days on Thursday 17th December, 2020, all the children were released “without payment of ransom” according to the Katsina State Governor!

KAGARA ABDUCTION - ONE TOO MANY!

It was officially confirmed that 42 people including 27 students of  Kagara Science College, were in fact abducted on the fateful day when the bandits overwhelm the “school’s security detail” according to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello.
At a news conference, he expatiated that twenty-seven students, three staff and 12 members of their families were kidnapped while one student was unfortunately shot dead!
President Muhammadu Buhari was reported to have dispatched security chiefs as usual “to co-ordinate rescue operation” and gave assurance that terrorism and banditry would be defeated according to spokesman Shehu Garba.
The Nigerian Army said it was working with the Department of State Security [DSS], to reinforce security in Kagara and pursue the abductors!

From the onset Boko Haram Islamic terrorists showed disdain for Western education and had been attacking educational facilities, especially when secondary schools students in the Northern States were included in their abduction package, government and its security operative apparatuses knew very well that with each successful outing those scoundrels would always return for bigger hauls?

WAS RANSOM PAID TO BANDITS DURING NEGOTIATIONS?

Your guess is good as ours! But for how long will Nigerian leaders subject innocent adolescents to inhuman treatments in their desperation to always squeeze illicit monies out of the system, whether the minors survived or perished!
WHICH BOARDING SCHOOL IS NEXT IN THE LINE OF ABDUCTION?

Where is the position of the “Safe School Initiative” [SSI], introduced by the Federal Government in November 2014, after the Chibok shocking abduction to prevent future occurrences in all of the preceding scenarios?
Why were the Boarding facilities not suspended or cancelled to forestall continuous abduction of school children?

From all indications, was the retention of the boarding system not a deliberate ploy to continue to prosper illicitly in naira and dollars by the syndicates of officials and bandits?

During ex-president Ebele Jonathan’s tenure, SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE ATTACKED BY SUICIDE BOMBERS BUT NOW THEY ARE KIDNAPPED FOR RANSOM! DID BUHARI ADMINISTRATION INHERIT SSI?

Who says that children could not have good education outside of the Boarding House? During the Covid-19 Pandemic lock downs in 2020, were boarding facilities exempted from the national clamp down?

It is gratifying to hear that Niger State Government has directed the immediate closure of all boarding schools in Rafi, Munya, Shiroro and Mariga Local Government Areas as a result of the insecurity situation in the Area.

Excerpts of our publication, Edition 66 of 16th November, 2014, on SSI are reproduced below:
“THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE [SSI]:  DESERVES MAXIMUM SECURITY!

The rate at which Nigerian school children are being eliminated by Boko Haram bombs should be of great concern to all genuine citizens, who believe in the divine law of succession which emphasizes that the young would grow to succeed their forebears!

The right to life and the dignity of the human person should always take priority of place with every serious administration as no government can function without its Human Capital assets and desperate measures MUST be employed to save these future leaders and endangered species at all cost!

Chapter IV, Section 33(1) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution states that every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in the execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria.

NB: Had security measures been in place on 10th November 2014, at the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum, Yobe State, only the suicide bomber who attacked the facility would have died instead of the 47 who died with 79 others fatally injured!

Also in Yobe State on February 25, 2014, 59 boys of the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi would not have been burnt to death at night while they slept in their boarding apartments when their apartments were set on fire by terrorists!

THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE (SSI), was launched with an initial $10million US dollars in response to the growing number of attacks on the right to education in the North East States and in solidarity the Federal government agreed to match the amount with an additional $10million, in a meeting between President Jonathan and the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
One hundred ($100million US dollars), is set target for the SSI to which more funds would be raised according to the Envoy who promised his assistance.

This joint effort on the protection of the right to learn in Nigeria is based on best practices from global standards which emphasizes that Safe Schools must be prioritized for continuity in education, even in HIGH RISK AREAS!”

COMMENTS: THE SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE SEEMS TO BE A PAPER TIGER & A FRAUD! Where is the initial USD$20 million dollars contributed for the scheme? PRESIDENT BUHARI SHOULD SPEAK UP IF HE INHERITED THE MONEY AND EXPLAIN HOW IT HAD BEEN DISBURSED!

COMMUNITY POLICING is sheer PROPAGANDA! Rural schools lack any form of security protection since most of them are neither fenced nor patrolled by policemen! How many schools employ CCTV cameras to monitor their classrooms or surroundings? How many of the staff know what steps to take in an ABDUCTION emergency? Are school Head teachers and staff connected to POLICE EMERGENCY OPERATION ROOMS AND HOT LINES?

Are Parents Teachers Associations [PTAs], in existence in all schools to strategize on security issues and liaise with law enforcement agencies on how to forestall all forms of crimes and criminalities – especially kidnappings of their wards?
The answer to all of the above is NEGATIVE and all of the blames should be heaped at the DOOR STEPS OF THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS which have failed in their constitutional responsibilities in spite of the billions of SECURITY VOTES AT THEIR DISPOSAL!!  

I’M A TRADE EXPERT SAYS OKONJO-IWEALA!

In spite of Trump Administration’s opposition to her appointment as DG WTO, it is gratifying that President Joe Biden wasted no time to give his nod and her only major contender, South Korea’s Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee, whom the US earlier supported, had no choice than to honorably step down for Nigeria’s Ngozi-Iweala.
During lobbying for the hotly-contested post, the Nigerian candidate was adjudged as inexperienced in Trade matters, but rose against such insinuation in July 2020, when she flaunted her well-studded resume as (1) A development economist (2) World Bank trade policy reform engagements (3) Trade facilitation as Nigeria’s two-time Finance Minister who coordinated ECOWAS common external tariffs.
“Those who say I don’t have trade are mistaken. I think the qualities I have are even better because I combine development economics with trade knowledge, along with finance, and you need those combination of skills to lead the WTO. I think I have the skills that are needed. I am a trade person.”

We join to congratulate Nigerians and Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the laudable international achievement and trust that she would match word with action to ensure that Nigeria benefited tremendously from the WTO under her watch, NOW THAT THE NATION JUST EXITED THE 2020 LAST QUARTER ECONOMIC RECESSION IN THE FIRST QUARTER [MID-FEBRUARY], OF 2021!

“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.’’  (Prov 22:29)

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