150 Days After, Foundation Demands Urgent Rescue Of Abducted Borno Pupils

The Ashlee Momoh Foundation has urged the federal authorities to accentuate efforts to urgently rescue dozens of kidnapped pupils from Lassa and Mussa communities in Askira-Uba in Borno State.

The chief government officer of the muse, Princess Ashlee Momoh, made the enchantment in a press release yesterday in Abuja.

Momoh mentioned the pupils, together with toddlers as younger as two years outdated, had spent roughly 150 days in captivity, violating their basic human rights.

LEADERSHIP Sunday recollects that the 78 youngsters have been reportedly kidnapped on 15 May, at Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School, and close by properties in Askira-Uba native authorities space. The abductees included nursery college pupils.

Momoh known as on the federal government to speed up strategic navy motion to deal with the lingering safety disaster and facilitate the speedy reunion of the pupils with their households.

“Our ideas and prayers stay with the dad and mom and family members who’ve been subjected to extreme emotional and psychological trauma all this time.

“Prayers must, however, be matched with decisive action. Our gallant military is fully capable of neutralising the abductors and rescuing our children,” she mentioned.

She cited the navy’s swift decision of the Oyo college abduction incident as proof of capability, stressing that the kidnapped youngsters deserve free, unhindered lives like each different Nigerian.

She mentioned that the muse would embark on a 21-day peaceable marketing campaign at Unity Fountain, Maitama, Abuja, to demand speedy unconditional launch of the pupils.

According to her, the sustained 21-day rally goals to attract world and nationwide consideration to the plight of the lacking pupils and demand their speedy, unconditional launch.

She due to this fact known as on well-meaning Nigerians, civil society organisations, and Askira-Uba residents in Abuja to take part en masse.