Abduction, killing of students, staff ‘ll cripple education, ASUU raises alarm

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi branch (FUAM), on Thursday, warned leaders in the country to rise up and halt the rising abduction of students and staff in schools.

Chairman of the FUAM ASUU chapter, Dr Simon Ejembi said that the high rate of kidnappers attacking secondary schools and tertiary institutions across the country without being challenged will soon cripple the educational sector in the country.

Dr Ejembi regretted that the siege on school started some years ago, particularly, at the University of Maiduguri where some people were killed but noted that the attack assumed dangerous dimensions in recent times with the abduction of pupils in secondary schools and tertiary institutions where 100s of students taken away and many killed due to the non-challant attitude of leaders.

“The current trend of students and staff abduction can only suggest that there is a siege on the educational system which apparently targets a complete crippling of the major organ of national development.

“This siege started some ten years ago at the University of Maiduguri where the campus was attacked and some people killed.

“Then in recent past, it was the turn of secondary schools in Katsina, Zamfara, Niger, Kaduna, Yobe, Adamawa States, etc with 100s of students taken away and some still in captivity while some have been killed.

“Because they have been operating unchallenged, they have resumed attacks on the Universities again with what we saw at Greenfield University in Kaduna and now the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi now known as Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University,” Dr Ejembi said.

He called on leaders in the country and security agents to rise to the occasion by nipping the ugly trend in the bud before the nation and education sector collapse.

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