Kaduna NUT laments kidnapping of students, teachers, tasks govt

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kaduna State branch, on Tuesday staged a nationwide solidarity rally implicit the abduction of schoolchildren and teachers, calling connected the Nigerian authorities to urgently dainty attacks connected schools and the abduction of students and teachers arsenic a nationalist emergency.

Addressing newsmen successful Kaduna, Comrade Sunday Garba, the authorities treasurer of the union, said the protestation was driven by the symptom of repeated attacks connected schools crossed the country. He said they gathered not by prime but due to the fact that their children, who are expected to beryllium the aboriginal of Nigeria, are successful captivity.

He lamented: “Teachers who are saddled with the work of shaping the aboriginal of this state person been silenced.”

Garba explained that the rally was triggered by the caller abduction successful Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, stressing that it was besides a effect to a signifier of schoolhouse kidnappings that remains unabated.

The national observed that successful April 2014, 276 pistillate students were kidnapped from Chibok successful Borno State and that much than 90 are inactive missing. It added that successful February 2018, 110 schoolgirls ...