Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. (Mrs.) Oluranti Adebule (middle); Majority Leader, Lagos House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade (right); being shown the point of escape of the gang of armed men who abducted three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School by the Principal, Ven. Olaoluwa Adeyemi, during a visit to the school at Agunfoye Lugbusi Village, Adamo, Ikorodu, on Wednesday, March 02, 2016.
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the dastardly kidnap of three secondary school students in a school in Ikorodu, describing it as a callous and inhuman act by criminals who want to test the resolve of the present Lagos State government to drastically reduce criminality in Lagos.
The party demanded the immediate release of the kidnapped female students and called on all security agencies to ensure nothing is left to chance in rescuing them and arresting the perpetrators.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that the kidnap of the secondary school students is a frantic attempt by criminals to liberalise crime in Lagos but said that the state is capable to take on this callous challenge.
It urged the Lagos State government to spare nothing to rescue the girls and ensure such acts do not recur in the future.
“We see the abduction of secondary school girls as a new height in criminality and a dangerous one for that matter. So, we urge all the relevant security agencies to move in immediately and nip this criminality in the bud to ensure it does not spread. We refuse to see reason why some group of people can plan such despicable act against vulnerable schoolgirls and we urge the state government to move in with its known precision to free the girls and arrest the culprits so as to send clear messages to criminals that Lagos still remains a hostile ground for their criminality.
“We are alarmed that some criminals were so callous as to kidnap innocent schoolgirls for whatever reason. We are alarmed that heartless criminals can go to such bestial extent to perpetrate such heinous crimes against school children and we say this marks a dangerous dimension to criminality. We see this as a frontal challenge to the state’s extensive security network and urge the state security structure to spare nothing to ensure that the girls are rescued and the criminals arrested to face the full wrath of the law.
“We join all well meaning Nigerians to express deep concern about the safety of the abducted girls as we challenge the Lagos State security agencies to put measures in place to ensure that no such criminality is perpetrated against school pupils in Lagos. We ask the kidnappers to immediately free the schoolgirls unconditionally as holding them further will only heighten societal anger against them. We demand that nothing be done to compromise the security and wellbeing of the girls and task all relevant agencies to move in and take quick and immediate catkins to free the girls.
“Lagos APC urges Lagosians to be at alert and report to the state security agencies any information that may lead to the quick rescue of the kidnapped schoolgirls as well as information that may forestall such ugly incidents in the future. We urge all to look out for clues for such heinous crime in the future and report to the security agencies for we cannot afford to allow the security of our children to be compromised by heartless criminals.”
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