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A wave of protests has continued to rock Kankara town, from where suspected bandits abducted an unspecified number of students at the Government Science Secondary School on Friday night.

A cross section of women and youth from Kankara took to the streets on Sunday morning demanding immediate release of their children even as the Coalition of Northern Groups has threatened to mobilise Katsina residents on continuous street protest if government fails to secure the release of students of the students in due course.

“Failure of the government to rescue the missing students within the shortest period of time, the Coalition of Northern Groups will not hesitate to mobilise hundreds of thousands on the streets of Katsina State for a continuous protest, until the students are fully rescued, even if it’s going to cost our lives,”the group said on Sunday at a press conference in Katsina.

The group’s North-West Coordinator, Jamilu Charanchi, said some 400 of the students were feared missing after the bandits’ attacks, a development he described as the highpoint of the inability of the state government to handle the, “disabling challenges that include dwindling economy, rising poverty and more worrying, a crippling security situation that has taken a huge toll on lives and property.

“The culmination of these security challenges has for the past few years turned the entire state into a house of horror with violent killings reported on daily basis, communities displaced with formal and informal IDP camps spreading all over the state.

“The deafening silence in the state to our people’s suffering is not only morally wrong but it nourishes, validates and perpetuates the failings of our political leaders.

“We owe it to our future generations to continue to act within the ambit of law in the hope that things will change for better.”

The group equally accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of failure in discharging it’s
primary responsibility of protecting lives and property of the people.

Bandits reportedly attacked the school at about 10.30 pm on Friday, hours after Buhari arrived his home state on a private visit.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari who visited the school and received a briefing from the principal on Saturday morning said he could not ascertain the exact number of students abducted.

Kankara is among the eight of the 34 local government areas in the state reported to be under the control of bandits, cattle rustlers and kidnappers.

As part of measures to check the menace of attacks by the hoodlums, the Nigerian Army in June 2020, raised a special squad, Operation Sahel Sanity, with headquarters at Faskari, a border community between Katsina and the equally troubled state of Zamfara.

A recent report by Network for Justice indicates that bandits killed a total of about 500 people with about 200 others kidnapped and about 40,000 cattle stolen in Kankara Local Government Area alone.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/katsina-school-attack-women-protests-rock-kankara/

Wetin concern me?

SecureTheNation

Bkayyy:
Wetin concern me?

He concern every one of us because ur family , friends and others fit be Next victim

I hope buhari ed the protest. Atleast Mek him dey useful for something

ojun50:

He concern every one of us because ur family , friends and others fit be Next victim

True

I thought protest is Haram !

Their business

Wahala for who no believe say na ipob handwork be this
No student was abducted
Let their families speak out
Upper level here we come

Autopiloting turning things around for Nigeria to move forward

Like i said ,no amount of sugar coating will change the truth.
North is worse than Afghanistan.
Disintegration of Nigeria is just a matter of time. Its a question of when not IF

This is a lie we northerners are safe sipping our camel urine.

Non Muslims stay off this, it is our cracked skull not yours

All praise to Buhari peace be upon him

Una eyes still never open.

May the peace and protection of the Lord be on the Bandits

Jo soapy! Ninu cell awon bandits jo soapy!

Buhari should also send soldiers to go and shoot them. Abi col. Bello don get corona virus ?

fake news too

ojun50:

He concern every one of us because ur family , friends and others fit be Next victim

I am not in the North my brother. I'm an Easterner for life.
As for those (Igbo) still in North, we renew their post-humous birthday every 1st December.

Sai barber

I don't even know what to say

May God help Nigeria
Our country needs healing , please always endeavor to pray for Nigeria

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Lies!!!
North is peaceful

These people are the ones sponsored by the PDP to disrupt our peaceful North. Check well and you will notice they are IPOBs and some Afonja miscreants


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Naija don turn to virtual bet

Hmmmm

#bringbackourstudents


When we never finish

#bringbackourgirls


Naija we hail thee.

Did they get clearance from the military before enrolling their children in school?....Una Never see anything, Sai Baba Dan Uwarku

I don't understand, is it not the same northerners that said during the
ENDSARS that, protest is UNISLAMIC?

When we protested in the south, you guys didn't care.
We protested against bad governance, but some of your leaders brainwashed you into thinking we wanted regime change.

Even if we wanted a regime change, wouldn't that be appropriate, judging by the level of insecurities in Nigeria at the moment?

You guys are just waking up

This country doesn't care about it's citizens. As long as the leaders knw that the people are divided along religious and tribal line, they will continue to take us granted

ojun50:

He concern every one of us because ur family , friends and others fit be Next victim

so they knew this yet ed this incompetent government after the first 4years of failure.... and mocked the south during the #endSARS protest?? Mtchewww..

Wetyn concern me.. make bandits kidnap 10million children that's their business... I cannot cry more than the bereaved...