By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Saturday urged the Federal Government to stop measuring success by rescue operations and instead prevent kidnappings, arguing that the real test of security is whether Nigerians can live, travel and send their children to school without fear.
While welcoming the rescue of pupils, teachers and other victims abducted from schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State after 56 days in captivity, the opposition party said the same urgency should be given to securing the release of schoolchildren and other victims still being held by kidnappers in Borno State and Kaiama, Kwara State.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party commended the security agencies and everyone involved in the operation that secured the victims’ freedom, saying their efforts had brought weeks of uncertainty to an end for the affected families.
“We commend the security agencies and all those whose efforts made this rescue possible. Above all, we rejoice with the families whose long and traumatic wait has finally come to an end,” Abdullahi said.
