A Lagos-based group, Save Lagos Group (SLG) has urged the State governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode to ensure the immediate release of the Two principals and Six Senior Secondary School students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe area of the State, condemned the State government for its lackadaisical attitude to the security of the citizen of the State, particularly, the pupils and Students of both Primary and post-primary schools across the State.
It also urged Governor Ambode to resign his position as the State helmsman, if as Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the State could not protect the lives and property of the citizenry as stipulated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, saying that the incessant kidnapping of the School children in the State have become alarming which the State authority should not take with levity hand.
It disclosed that the call was imperative as the security situation of the commercial nerve of the country have been degenerated to the unbearable level, calling on the security agents in the State to ensure the release of the abducted school children unconditionally in no distance time.
According to the statement signed by the group’s Convener, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman and a copy was made available to newsmen on Tuesday, stated that as a voiceless group to the voiceless citizens of the State, it could not fold its arm and allowing the State government to be treating the issue of security of lives and property of the citizens with kid glove, urging the Ambode led State Executive to be alive to its responsibility or being impeached from office.
Comrade Sulaiman saluted the courage of the affected parents of the kidnapped children for refusing to pay any alleged ransom to the kidnappers, stressing that the mindboggling incident was occurred as a result of the failure of the State government in the area of security provision upon all the acclaimed huge funds being spent on the security of the State through special intervention funds tagged “Security Trust fund-STF) .
The group then sympathized with the parents and family of the abducted school children, advising them to have faith in God and that their Children would soon be released to them unconditionally.
It would be recalled that the kidnappers had earlier in October last year kidnapped four students and two staff of the same school before they were released later.
Signed:
Adeniyi A. Sulaiman
Convener, Save Lagos Group (SLG)
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