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Students’ Abduction: We Need To Know The Truth, Governor Tells FG

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has called for an investigation into the spate of the abduction of students by bandits and their release shortly afterwards.
Wike described as ‘funny’ the spate of abduction and release of schoolchildren by alleged kidnappers in the Northern part of the country.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has called for an investigation into the spate of the abduction of students by bandits and their release shortly afterwards.

Wike, who questioned how schoolchildren are being abducted without anyone knowing, said insecurity in the country is rising because Nigerians politicise the issue of security.

The governor made the comment while speaking during the visit of Minister of State for Agriculture, and Rural Development, Mustapha Baba Shehuri to his office at Government House, Port Harcourt, on Monday.

Wike described as ‘funny’ the spate of abduction and release of schoolchildren by alleged kidnappers in the Northern part of the country saying, “I saw breaking news, another banditry in Kaduna and taking away students and teachers. The thing is becoming funny. Yesterday, you take 300, two days after, they release them. The next morning, you take another one, the next 24 hours, they’re released.

Nyesom Wike

“So, people know where they are. You take two hundred and something people in a 20 kilometres distance and nobody will know? And in the next 24 hours they’ve been released. What’s really happening?

“Can somebody tell us the truth of what’s going on. It is becoming funny. And why is it so? It is so because we politicise the issue of security,” he said.

The governor further alleged that politics has been used to deny the state access to agricultural loans offered by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Wike decried the situation where every issue in the country including agriculture has been politicised instead of implementing such policy dispassionately to achieve the intended food security and jobs for the youths.

“I think, I am one of those States that nobody gives loans for agriculture. I don’t know what hatred the Central Bank Governor has for us? We do not know.

“We have been hearing of ANCHOR borrower this and ANCHOR that. But when it concerns Rivers State, you will hear a lot of things,” the governor said.