The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the killing of Ropvil Daciya Dalep, a student of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID.
Master Dalep was abducted on his way back to school by Boko Haram on January 9, 2020 alongside others in the vehicle to Maiduguri from Jos, Igbere TV reports.
After days in the net of the dreaded Boko Haram group, Dalep was brutally killed on the 22nd January, 2020 in a video that has gone viral in the social media space.
In a statement sent to Igbere TV by President of NANS, Bamidele Akpan, he called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the service chiefs “as they have lost touch with the reality.”
According to him, the rising insecurity in every part of the country must be curtailed, while calling for a halt in “normalization of blood letting.”
Other kidnapped persons are still held captive and suffering in the hands of their abductors. On a daily basis, Nigerians are kidnapped and killed by Boko Haram and other unknown armed groups.
Just recently, the Islamic West Africa Province (ISWAP), a factional Boko Haram group, abducted and executed Pastor Lawan Andimi, Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
Communities in the North East, especially in Adamawa and Borno States have come under heavy attack with untold casualties and tales of woe that has been either not reported or under reported by the media.
“At the moment, there is no safe place in Nigeria as abduction is carried out close to the seat of power, Abuja and its environs. Travellers and commuters are regularly attacked, kidnapped and killed around Kogi, Kaduna and Jos routes.
“The impact of the violent attacks has been devastating on these communities and Nigerian students who now live in perpetual fear and could no longer attend school in these areas due to fear of killings and kidnaps as their campuses come under several attacks and the highways they commute from their various homes to school unsafe.
“We call on the President Muhammadu Buhari, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to immediately sack the service chiefs as they have lost touch with the reality.
“The rising insecurity in every part of the country must be curtailed, as we call for a halt in normalization of blood letting,” the statement by NANS added.
The student group, therefore, threatened to commence mass protests in earnest to “get our country secured immediately.”
