The release of 28 Bethel Baptist High School students in Chikum Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been applauded by the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria.
In a statement made available on Monday by its National Coordinator, Malam Abdullahi Ibrahim, the group condemned the ‘siege’ of criminals on Nigerians especially in the Northern parts of the country.
The statement urged security agencies in the land to upscale their efforts in curbing kidnapping and banditry in Nigeria.
It read, “The nation’s intelligence and security mechanism ought to have located the dens of these criminals and be able to track them down since they started their nefarious activities several years ago.”
It condemned the failure of terrorists to release the kidnapped 137 pupils of an Islamiyyah school in Tegina, Niger and urged stakeholders to urgently relieve the agonising parents and guardians of grieve by doing the needful to set the innocent children free.
The statement stressed that the low-turn-out that characterised the just concluded local government elections in Lagos and Ogun states, confirmed that the electorate were tired of deceitful polls.
It, therefore, charged the National Assembly to amend the 1999 Constitution to give the Independent National Electoral Commission the power to organise local council elections suggesting that the States Independent Electoral Commissions should be scrapped.
