No child should suffer what children are facing in Nigeria – Amnesty on abducted schoolchildren

Amnesty International Nigeria has called connected the Nigerian authorities to intensify efforts to rescue 42 schoolchildren abducted successful Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.

The organisation made the telephone successful a station connected X connected Wednesday, saying it had been 144 days since the children were abducted by gunmen connected May 15, 2026.

Amnesty said the incidental was portion of a wider signifier of abductions affecting communities crossed bluish Nigeria, informing that the continued insecurity was putting the acquisition and aboriginal of thousands of children astatine risk.

“No kid should spell done what children are going done present successful Nigeria. Education should not beryllium a substance of beingness and decease for anyone. Nigeria is failing children erstwhile again successful a horrifying manner,” the organisation said.

It besides expressed interest implicit the closure of hundreds of schools successful immoderate bluish states owed to escalating insecurity.

According to Amnesty, galore children person been forced to wantonness their acquisition aft experiencing convulsive attacks oregon spending clip successful captivity, leaving them with intelligence trauma.

“The aboriginal of thousands of schoolhouse children successful Northern Nigeria remains bleak arsenic hundreds of schools successful immoderate states person been closed indefinitely owed to rising insecurity,” it said.

The organisation urged the authorities to ta...