The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has called on the Federal Government to fulfill its constitutional responsibility by intensifying rescue operations for all citizens still held by terrorists, including the schoolchildren of Mussa, Lassa, Shikarkir, Ariko, Awon and every other forgotten community across Nigeria.
Mr. Luka Binniyat, spokesman of the Middle Belt Forum, in a statement made available to DAILY POST in Kaduna on Wednesday, said, “The rescue of the Oyo victims has demonstrated that determined action can produce results. The same commitment must now be extended to every Nigerian still in captivity.
“The Middle Belt Forum also urges the Nigerian Union of Teachers to demonstrate that its concern for the safety of teachers and schoolchildren is national in scope by extending the same solidarity to the victims in Southern Borno. If the union truly believes that every Nigerian teacher and every Nigerian child deserves equal protection, then it must speak with the same outrage and conviction on behalf of these forgotten pupils.”
The forum appealed to civil society organisations, human rights groups, religious leaders, the media, development partners and the international community not to allow the innocent victims to disappear from public consciousness, saying that every Nigerian child held hostage by enemies of society deserves to be remembered, every hostage deserves hope and every family deserves justice.
While the forum commended the Federal Government, the security agencies and all those who played a role in the successful rescue of the schoolchildren and teachers abducted in Oyo State on May 15,
