Atiku points wake-up name to safety companies

Former vice chairman, Atiku Abubakar, has charged safety companies to get up to their duties of guaranteeing the safety of residents, stressing that the spate of kidnapping has been insufferable.

In an announcement on Sunday, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) within the 2023 election, lamented that even journalists have turn into victims of abduction and assault as they get up in opposition to evil.

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Atiku stated: “In these perilous instances, the brave sentinels of fact, our journalists, stand as beacons of sunshine, unwavering of their obligation to carry energy accountable. But, they discover themselves besieged not solely by the fear of abductors but additionally by a authorities that continues to assault their freedom via arrests and detention.”

“Including to this travesty is the kidnap of 78-year-old Mr Takai Shamang, President and Founding father of Gantys Support for Widows, Orphans and Needy Basis (GAWON) and former President Common of the Nationwide Union of Electrical energy and Fuel Employees (now generally known as the Nationwide Union of Electrical energy Staff) between 1982 and 1989” Atiku added.

He additional stated, “Earlier than then, Janet Galadima-Gimba, a customary courtroom decide in the identical Kaduna, had been kidnapped and launched. However her sons are nonetheless in captivity, with the abductors reportedly making a requirement of N150 million as ransom”

“Elsewhere in Katsina, 75-year-old Hauwa’u Adamu, mom of the favored Hausa singer, Dauda Kahutu Rarara, or Rarara, as he’s fondly identified was kidnapped on Friday.”

Atiku famous that “This despicable act underscores the dire state of our nation’s safety and the gross failure of our leaders to guard its residents”

In response to him, “These abductions are damning indictments of our leaders’ failure to safe the security of residents and an insupportable breach of press freedom (because it pertains to the journalists).”

He referred to as upon the safety companies “to behave decisively and at once to safe their launch however to prioritise intelligence gathering and sharing.”