Nigeria: new kidnapping of children in Sokoto State after two mass kidnappings
This March 9, in Sokoto State, a new kidnapping occurred a few days after the two mass kidnappings that hit Nigeria in less than a week.
Security forces deployed in Kaduna State in Nigeria (illustrative image).
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Fifteen children, students of an Islamic school in Sokoto State in the northwest of Nigeria were kidnapped by armed men this Saturday, March 9 in the morning.
A few days earlier, two mass kidnappings were committed in the country.
As a reminder, more than a
hundred displaced women and girls
are missing in the Borno region, where Boko Haram and Iswap jihadists are active.
And in the northwest, in the Kaduna region,
280 students
from Kuriga school were taken into the forest by armed men.
The youngest are only 8 years old.
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Victor Abarchi, a civil society mediator and resident of Kaduna, is interviewed by
Liza Fabbian
: “
For eight months, the security situation had clearly improved in Kaduna State, particularly with regard to kidnappings and the activities of bandits.
The roads are becoming safer and the villages in the region are less targets of attacks.
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Surprised
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And that’s why many of us are surprised by the kidnapping of these children
,” said Victor Abarchi.
This is the largest mass kidnapping since 2020, 2021. But what is particularly shocking is that they took elementary school students this time.
Not just middle and high school students, we're talking about little children.
Often those who organize a kidnapping of this magnitude want to attract the attention of the government, often they end up making a statement or demanding something
.”
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