Abuja, 11 February, 2024 / 8:40 pm (ACI Africa).
Nigeria is facing far-reaching security challenges, with daily reports of abduction and deaths, the National Director of Social Communications in Nigeria has said.
Speaking during a media parley, which the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) organized on February 7, Fr. Michael Nsika Umoh called on the Federal government to take “decisive action against the escalating threats posed by marauding bandits and kidnappers nationwide.”
“Our country is in a very distasteful situation at the moment, and it is not a time for politics,” Fr. Umoh said, and explained, “People are being killed on a daily basis; school children are being kidnapped and the Government is not doing anything to protect the citizens.”
He went on to recount an incident in the capital city of the West African nation, saying, “Recently in Abuja a nursing mother and her three-month-old baby were kidnapped together with her grandmother; ransom was demanded and since they could not pay, the woman and her mother were killed leaving the baby.”
“We didn’t see the government coming out in full force to condemn this distasteful situation,” the Nigerian Catholic Priest, who is at the helm of the department of Social Communications of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) lamented.
