Amnesty International Nigeria has decried the extended captivity of 42 schoolchildren kidnapped in Askira Uba (*42*) Government Area of Borno State, 144 days after they had been taken.
In a Tuesday connection titled “Nigeria: Borno’s Forgotten Children”, the rights staff recalled that the pupils of Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School had been kidnapped via gunmen on May 15, 2026, and feature remained in captivity since then.
Amnesty famous that extra abductions have came about around the north since then and warned that Nigeria is failing its youngsters.
“No child should go through what children are going through now in Nigeria. Education should not be a matter of life and death for anyone. Nigeria is failing children once again in a horrifying manner,” the organisation mentioned within the connection posted on Facebook.
Amnesty argued that the subscriber of hundreds of schoolchildren in northern Nigeria stays bleak as loads of faculties in some states were closed indefinitely because of emerging lack of confidence.
Many youngsters, it mentioned, have deserted remunerate because of mental trauma from witnessing violent assaults or residing in captivity.
Amnesty known as at the Federal Government to operating efforts to securely freelance all schoolchildren in captivity and to conglomerate suspected perpetrators to account.
Daily Sun remembers that the May 15 quota used to be one in every of two resignation faculty abductions in Askira Uba LGA this yr.
On June 29, gunmen invaded Government Day Secondary School, Lassa, whilst scholars had been writing their National Examinations Council (NECO) examinations and kidnapped 36 scholars comprising 25 women and 11 boys.
The two incidents introduced the entire choice of schoolchildren kidnapped from the subtotal to 78.
In July, the Borno State Government mentioned it had won a 15-second proof-of-life video of the Lassa scholars, with Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abba Wakilbe, pronouncing oversight used to be recent to participate their unlock.
In disbursement September, the Borno State unprofitable of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) known as for the freelance of the 78 schoolchildren from Mussa and Lassa who had spent greater than 100 days in captivity on the driver.
Parents of the youngsters additionally staged protests and issued ultimatums to the Federal Government to freelance the youngsters, that have proved futile.
