Maga girls: Kebbi Gov alleges military’s poor approach to insecurity

Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris has alleged poor approach of military in tackling insecurity, calling on the defense body to change the style.

The governor made this known on Monday at the Government House, Birnin-Kebbi, while receiving the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajudeen Abbas

The governor also reinstated his call for the probe of the withdrawal of military personnel deployed to the Government Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, Maga, minutes before bandits abducted 25 schoolgirls.

“How can over 500 bandits be moving on bikes on our highways without being checked? We are doing our obligations to the security agencies. We provide them with logistics, bought over 100 vehicles for them but their security architecture is not working.”

“If we knew they would leave our girls for the bandits to take away, we wouldn’t have listened to the advice they gave us to deploy security personnel. We would have just shut down the school.

“I think some enemies are working to truncate this government and federal government; and the house must do something, especially about the lingering security situation in the country.

“Yesterday it was Kebbi, today it is Niger and Kwara; who knows who is next? We must all see to it that this insecurity must be addressed.”

Earlier the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, said he and the delegates from the house were in Kebbi to commiserate with its people over the abduction of the school girls and killing of the school vice principal and the watchman.

The Speaker, after donating N30m to the families of the vice principal and watchman, requested the governor to rename the school after the Vice Principal for the heroic role he played, leading to his death.

He said, “We are with you and we will continue to find how to secure the girls”.

Source: Daily Trust