Groups task Jonathan, IG with probing students’ killings

[Sunexx360]

A group, Women in Politics Forum, has condemned the recent killings of four students of University of Port Harcourt, River State, and 40 students of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi in Adamawa State.
The women also called for the sacking of theDivisional Police Officer in charge of the nearest police station in Aluu community where the UNIPORT students were killed
The forum, which comprises national women leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Labour Party, All Progressives Grand Alliance, All Nigeria Peoples Party, Congress for Progressive Change and Peoples Democratic Party, argued that the future of Nigeria was being threatened by the murderof youths with reckless abandon.
WIPF in a statement untitled, 'What have we done to deserve this?"; which  was signed by the National Women Leader of the ACN, Mrs. Hafsat Mohammed, and her CPC counterpart, Sharon Ikeazor, said security agencies had failed in their responsibilities.
The forum said, "We have come together in pain and anguish to condemn the killing of our children.
"Where was the Nigerian Police Force? Where was the Joint Military Task Force? We are killing our future by murdering our promising youths on a daily basis. Every day, we are burying our children. Are we at war? What has gone wrong?"
They urged all mothers and women of Nigeria to arise and demand answers from Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Gov.Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State and President Goodluck Jonathan.
"We must hold them responsible and accountable for these killings. We are tired ofpalliative rhetoric like 'the perpetrators will be brought to book, and that they will face justice.'  Where is that justice? Where is that rule of law?, when people kill with impunity and nothing happens? What have we as a nation done to deserve this?
"We demand a proper investigation of these two incidents by the police and we want an accelerated hearing of the case by the judiciary," the forum said.
Similarly, the National Congress of Nigerian Students has urged President Goodluck Jonathan and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to ensure that all culprits of the murder of the UNIPORTstudents are brought to book.
In a statement in Ilorin on Saturday by its national President, Mr. Abdulfatah Abdulsalam, the group urged Jonathan and Abubakar to ensure thorough investigation of the incident.
"The stripping, humiliation and burning of the students who were only accused of stealing, an accusation yet to be proved in any court of law, is horrific, illegal and unacceptable," NACONS stated