Tears flowed freely on Sunday when thousands of Plateau youths, under
the umbrella of G17 Peace and Progressive Forum, staged a peaceful
procession to demand urgently release of youths from Plateau State who
are languishing in Boko Haram captivity in the North East.
The youths, who dressed in black, drawn across the 17 local
government areas of the state and Southern Kaduna described the
execution of a 200-level student of University of Maiduguri, Ropvil
Daciya, who hailed from Plateau State as an attack on Christians from
the state.
Spokesman of the G-17 Youths, John Baling urged the Federal
Government to facilitate the release of Bashiru Abdulhamid, a health
worker and Miss Lilian Gyang, a 100-level student of University of
Maiduguri who are still wallowing in Boko Haram captivity.
“President Muhammadu Buhari must take responsibility for every act of
negligence on the part of those appointed to provide leadership and
direction to the nation’s security forces and should therefore sanction
non-performance by the Military High Command as their failure to
guarantee the safety of citizens can no longer be rewarded with lengthy
or prolonged stay in office.
“The country is being brought to it’s knees by a free ranging band of
terrorist. We join all other well meaningful and pattriotic Nigerians
to call on Mr. President to immediately overhaul the nation’s security
apparatus by sacking this present crop of non performing service chiefs.
“We call on government at the state and federal levels to act now and
act decisively in doing everything possible to secure the release of
Bashir and Lilian as well as all other abducted citizens from different
parts of the country.”
The youths demands the Federal Government to take urgent steps in
securing all federal roads and communities in the country particularly
those within the North East.