Tinubu under fire over kidnapping of 25 schoolgirls, killing of Brigadier General

 President Bola Tinubu is currently facing intense criticism over the ongoing security crisis in the country.

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The criticism follows the killing of a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army, General Uba, and the abduction of around 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi State.

 General Uba was gruesomely murdered by Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP terrorists after being reported missing in the forest for several hours.

Similarly, reports emerged on Monday indicating that yet-to-be-identified armed men invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, and abducted 25 students.

The principal of the school, Hassan Yakubu Makuku, was reportedly killed by the assailants during the attack.

Reacting, popular Nigerian human rights activist Omoyele Sowore slammed the Tinubu-led administration for failing to secure Nigerians.

In a statement on his Facebook page, Sowore wrote, “Twenty-five schoolgirls have been abducted by terrorists in Kebbi, yet Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s press statement of the day is a casual greeting to a ‘seasoned banker.’

“A Brigadier General in the @Nigerian Army has just been executed by Boko Haram/ISWAP, and still the President has said nothing. No reassurance. No outrage. No leadership”.

Similarly, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, condemned the abduction of the schoolgirls in a statement.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, the party said the tragic incident “further highlights the alarming rise in insecurity that has become the lived reality of the majority of Nigerians under the Tinubu-led APC administration, which has consistently preferred the politicisation of governance over the protection of citizens.”

PDP added: “When a government fails in its primary duty of safeguarding lives and property, it must accept responsibility and deal decisively with the issues, rather than act aloof or attempt to deflect from the core issues, as this administration has repeatedly done”.