On Monday, December 11, 2023, youths staged protests in Kano, demanding the release of female students who were kidnapped from different universities some parts of northern Nigeria.

The youths, who marched across the city, demanded the immediate rescue of the students kidnapped by armed bandits from Federal University Gusau (FUGUS) about three months ago, as well as other female students abducted from Federal University, Dutsinma (FUDMA) and Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State.

In totality, about 24 female students of FUGUS and four female students of FUDMA, who were abducted by the bandits over three months ago are presently in captivity.

On this note, however, I wish to stressed that it is good for the society to hold their leaders accountable for thier actions and inactions This is the beauty of democracy which guaranteed the right of peaceful assembly, to orderly express support or grief, which is enshrined in the constitution of Nigeria.

In this regard, Nigerians, during former President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, enjoyed this liberty and made good use of that Constitutional provision where they launched bring 'back our girls' campaign when 276 female students of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state, were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.

Ideally, Nigerians, like any other democratic society, are ought to air their grievances whenever a pressing issue, such as insecurity, try to complicate their lives. Then comes the issue.

What makes one doubts the sincerity of the organizers of such protest is their inability to protest when kidnappings under the reign of Muhammad Buhari were multiplied by 300% over what happened during Jonathan's tenure, but they quickly came out at the beginning of President Bola Tinubu's government, where two dozens students abducted, while over 2,000 male and female students were abducted under Buhari's watch but no single protest was recorded.


The Timeline of Major Abductions Under Buhari
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On February 19, 2018, about 110 schoolgirls aged 11 – 19-years-old were abducted by Boko Haram from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College.

On December 11, 2020, Fulani terrorists/bandits kidnapped 344 schoolchildren from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina.

Nine days later, on December 20, 2020, another 80 pupils of Islamiyya School, Mahuta, Katsina, were seized..

The following month, on January 24, 2021, seven children were abducted at Rachael Orphanage Home for Abaji, Abuja.

One month after, precisely on February 17, some 27 boys at GSS College, Kagara, Niger state were taken. Barely after nine days, another abduction of 317 girls from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara state, took place on February 26.

On March 11, 2021, bandits striked at Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi LGA, in Kaduna State and kidnapped 39 students. Also On 20 April 2021, no fewer than 20 students were kidnapped at Greenfield University in Kasarami of Kaduna state.

Shortly after, 200 pupils and teachers of Tanko Salihu Islamic School, Tegina, in Rafi Local Government area of Niger State were abducted in May. And on July 5, at least 128 students of Bethel Baptist School, Kaduna were abducted.

Being hypocritical, by applying double (or even multiple) standard, and giving an ethnic, religious or regional coloration to important pressing issues bedeviling a nation of ours, like insecurity, would never yield a fruitful results to us as citizens and the country as an entity.



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Northerners are 90% the problem of this country. Silent under one guy, so vocal under another. What happened?

RepoMan007:
Northerners are 90% the problem of this country. Silent under one guy, so vocal under another. What happened?

Hypocrisy of the highest order