The Northern Elders Forum on Friday raised the alarm over what it described as an increasing rate of insecurity in the country.
In a statement issued by its Director General, Prof Doknan Sheni, it called on the Federal Government, led by President Bola Tinubu, and the state governments to intervene and save the people from further anguish.
“Northern Elders Forum hereby joins the many voices of concerned Nigerians, to strongly register our heightened sense of collective anguish, at the alarming spates of audacious incursions into our secondary schools, colleges of higher learning, and universities, by hordes of bandits, hardened criminals, violent kidnappers, and marauding hoodlums.
“Nearly a decade since the commando-like mass kidnappings of Chibok girls in Borno state, the specter of this wanton act of criminality is eerily assuming a much more frightening dimension. While the pains and sense of loss at the woeful failure of the government to rescue many of the Chibok girls from captivity have continued to add more misery to our forlorn lives, the recent highly disturbing news of yet another audacious kidnapping of about 46 girls from the Federal University of Gusau, in Zamfara state, clearly leaves a sour taste in the mouth,” the group said in the statement.
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