‘Children now pawns in ransom economy’ – Peter Obi on Kogi school attack

The statesmanlike campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, has condemned a bandit onslaught connected Government Secondary School, Iluke, successful Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, describing the incidental arsenic a heartbreaking reflection of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity.

DAILY POST had reported that the incidental occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday when bandits struck, sidesplitting the vice main of the schoolhouse alongside 2 others and kidnapped 3 students.

Reacting to the incidental successful a connection released via his X grip on Wednesday, Obi lamented that children person go “pawns successful a deadly ransom economy,” noting that the onslaught came hardly 3 weeks aft much than 40 schoolchildren and their teachers were abducted and stay successful captivity.

He wrote: “Sad: Our Children Are Now Pawns successful a Deadly Ransom Economy.

“It’s heartbreaking to study yet different bandit onslaught connected a school, hardly 3 weeks aft implicit 40 schoolchildren and their teachers were abducted and are inactive languishing successful the forest.

“The information concern successful Kogi State has taken different tragic crook with a brutal bandit onslaught connected Government Se...