THE United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that a total of 950 students have been abducted from their schools in Nigeria by armed men since December 2020. The agency also described the latest abduction of students of Bethel Baptist School in Kaduna by bandits as one too many, a tide it said must be stopped forthwith. According to a statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta Fore, “On July 5th, 150 students were reportedly abducted from a school in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, marking the latest incident in an alarming spate of attacks against children and abductions, including of students, in parts of West and Central Africa. Over the past six weeks alone, nearly 500 children were abducted in four separate incidents across the central and northwest parts of the country. It is hard to fathom the pain and fear that their families and loved ones are suffering in their absence.”

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 08, 2021 05:03 UTC