Govt Responsible For Schoolgirls Abduction - NLC

Date: 2014-05-26

Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Isa Aremu yesterday said government should be held responsible for the abduction of over 200 school girls and the insecurity challenge in the country.

He described as a "misconception of governance" the statement credited to the representative of President Goodluck Jonathan, asking the "#bringbackourgirls" protesters in Abuja to direct their protest to the abductors.

Speaking with newsmen in Ilorin shortly after the eight day fidau for late Serikinfawa of Ilorin, Alhaji Ahmadu Amosa Tuba, Aremu noted that the Nigeria's security challenge should not be seen as an isolated issue affecting the North-east alone but the entire country.

He said the NLC expresses solidarity with members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) who protested last week against the abduction of Chibok Secondary school girls and the killing of 173 teachers by insurgents.

The development, he noted, was an attack on education and knowledge, adding that "all men and women of knowledge should stand up to save knowledge. An injury to teachers should be an injury to all Nigerians. Not even during the civil war did we lose as many as 173 teachers at a go. They were not war activists, they were teachers and I think the lesson of this is that the current insecurity challenge should not be seen as an isolated issue".

He tasked the government to act fast because, according to him, the current insecurity situation poses danger to governance.

He added, "After Almighty God, the only institution that is meant to protect citizens worldwide is government. After God, the only protector we possibly have is our government and when I say government, in the case of Nigeria, federal, states and local governments. So the challenge of insecurity can only be solved by the government and it is the government we know. We don't know the killers but we know those we elected to protect us. It is they who must make sure schools are secured for uninterrupted learning. It is the federal government in collaboration with the states and local governments that would make sure pupils are secure in schools and teachers are protected".

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yunus Oniboki     Baboko     Mumeen Lah     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Oyelere Oyinloye     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Kwara Apc     Ahmed     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Ahmed Bayero     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     KwaraLearn     Hassan A. Saliu     Olaiya Zuberu     Presidential Election     Kwarareports.com     Irepodun     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Kayode Alabi     Sodiya     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     A.O. Belgore     Kwara State University Of Education     Wole Oke     Voices Of Tomorrow     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Bisi Kristien     Bolaji Gambari     Rasaq Jimoh     Lucky Omoluwa     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Sabi     Kanu Agabi     S.O. Opowoye     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Oke-Kura     Olabanji Orilonishe     Shettima     Olatunde Olukoya     Abraham Ojo     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Omotoso Musa     Vasolar     Oya State     Bilikisu Gambari     Idris Garba     Ileloke     Sam Okaula     Pakata     Ahmed \'Lateef     Isa Aremu     AbdulRauf Keji     Muhammadu Gobir     Kola Adesina     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Alikinla     Adebara     Sarkin Malamai     Monthly Sanitation     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Ramat Oganija     Olugbense     Lithium Deposit     Kayode Issa     Mukhtar Shagaya     Bamidele Adegoke     Moro     George Innih     Funmilayo Braithwaite     LAK Jimoh     Kamaldeen Kehinde    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Oba Abu     Chief Of Staff     Abdulrauf Yusuf     SWAN     CACOVID Palliatives     Erin-ile     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Abubakar Atiku     Oloyede     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Adebara     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     International Vocational Centre     Bola Olukoju     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Moses Rahman Popoola     Amada Jidda     Arinola Lawal     Kayode Ishola     Ilorin International Airport     KWASSIP     Saidu Isa     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Buhari     Kwha.gov.ng     Offa Poly     TESCOM 2025     MAI Akande     Taiwo Joseph     Iyaloja-General     Amosa     Apado     Yusuf A. Usman     Logun     Abdulrauf Aliyu     First Lady     Earlyon Technologies     Kwara     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Rotimi Oyedepo     Abdulazeez Uthman     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Atiku Abubakar     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Alfa Belgore     Alao Ayotunde     Ilofa     Okin Malt     Mashood Dauda     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Labaeka     Funke Adedoyin     BECE     Moses Afolayan     Guber Aspirant     Okanlawon Musa     Zainab Abass     Dan Masanin     CCB     Iqra Books     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Pacify Labs     Oke-Kura     Pilgrims Board     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Atiku     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Kubra Kazum     Photo News     Bareke