Dapchi Kidnap ‘Plot To Get More Security Votes’, Claims Sultan-Led Group

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III led Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has inferred that the recent kidnap of 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, may be a plot by the state government to get more security votes.

The JNI, while lambasting the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, described the abduction of the schoolgirls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, as “the most potent action to frustrate the girl-child education” in northern Nigeria.

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The JNI wondered if there are “orchestrated plans somewhere to make a case for more security votes” using the schoolgirls’ abduction.

The group which spoke in a statement on Thursday by its Secretary-General, Dr Abubakar Khalid-Ailyu, decried that parents in the North are no longer comfortable allowing their daughters get educated.

“No parent now is comfortable, especially in the North-East, to allow his daughter to go to such callously unprotected schools; and the North is the loser,” said JNI.

The group equally lamented that the President Buhari-led government was yet to “sanction those implicated in the Dapchi girls’ travails”

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It said, “There is apparent lack of synergy between security operatives in Yobe State, or there is active connivance with the insurgents, especially if reports of media altercations between the army and the police are anything to go by.”

Meanwhile, the Nigerian government had recently described the Dapchi schoolgirls’ abduction as a conscious ploy by the Boko Haram insurgents to “embarrass” the President Buhari regime.

“We must understand that these are they dying days of the Boko Haram and what they intend to do is to embarrass the government because they have been degraded, they have been pushed out of Sambisa forest,” the Minister of Information, Alh. Lai Mohammed had recently said.

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