A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator c, on Sunday raised fresh concern over the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents, saying the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), could no longer afford to do anything while Nigerians were daily captured and taken away by the insurgents.
Useni spoke in Jos on Sunday in a statement by his Media Consultant, Mr. Yiljap Abraham, while reacting to the abduction of Miss Jennifer Samuel, a Plateau State citizen working as a midwife with the Alliance for International Medical Action.
She was kidnapped along Monguno-Maiduguri road along with her colleague and many others.
However, he said, “It is painful to see many Plateau patriots captured away from home in the line of duty, and some, like Lawrence Duna Dacighir and Godfrey Ali Shikagham, both from Mangu LGA, have had to pay the supreme price in the hands of the insurgents in Borno State.
It is all the more disturbing when the reasons for these kidnap and gruesome killings are tied to religious differences and as a revenge for other killings outside the Nigerian borders.
“I call on the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to impress it on the armed forces and all security services, the good people of Borno and surrounding states, as well as friendly nations to secure the release of Miss Samuel as well as the freedom of many other Nigerians in captivity.
“Mr. President, rise with all the valor from your training and the powers of your office to put an end to these impunities by hostile forces that want to keep this nation in perpetual fear.”
He added, “I am also disturbed by a report that another Plateau citizen, Bashir Abdulhamid, with the Primary Health Care Department of Kanam LGA, is among those captured by the insurgents.
Bashir’s family and all of us must remain calm and strengthened in the hope that his ordeal will help to raise the kind of aid and action that will give peace to our land and our hearts.
“It is indeed reprehensible and unacceptable to kidnap or take the lives of people who are out and about their legitimate and official activities to promote the good of the nation and the welfare of citizens.
In addition, the execution of some Christians and Muslims by the Islamic State in West Africa Province to coincide with the Christmas celebration is clearly meant to provoke and insult the adherents of both religions in our country by edging them toward greater suspicion, anger, and tension.
But more, it is an act of cowardice accomplished by people whose undefined and godless agenda continues to be frustrated by the good works of good and courageous people even in areas of conflict.”
