Umar Bayo Abdulwahab
Islamic Welfare Foundation (IWF) has called on the federal government to urgently take appropriate steps to rescue the abducted school girls form the captivity of insurgents.
The Foundation said the government had not shown enough commitment to rescue the innocent girls three weeks after their abduction from schools.
It noted that the life of every Nigerian should be protected “because that is the whole essence of governance.”
National coordinator of the Foundation, Malam Aliyu Bhadmus, said this in his address at the Round-Table talk to mark the 30th anniversary of the Islamic group held in Ilorin at the weekend.
He said: “For almost three weeks more than 100 school girls are left in the mercy of these criminals and government in our view has not shown enough commitment to securing their freedom.
“There is the need for more proactive, coordinated and concerted efforts on the part of the nation’s security apparatus to put an end to insurgency in Nigeria. In our view, the best options are good governance, reduction of poverty in the land, creation of employments for the teeming unemployed graduates and total extermination of poverty from the polity.”
Other educationist and Islamic scholars, including former Speaker of Osun state House of Assembly, Professor Mojeed Alabi, Dr(Mrs)Lateefat M. Durosinmi and Professor Bayo Lawal amongst others delivered papers in the one-day programme.