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 govt officer of the muse, Princess Ashlee Momoh, made the attraction in an announcement yesterday in Abuja.

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

LEADERSHIP Sunday recollects that the 78 kids 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 faculty pupils.

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

“Our ideas and prayers stay with the mother and father 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 stated.

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

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

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