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Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has expressed deep concern over the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria, particularly the continued captivity of some Chibok school girls by Boko Haram after 10 years.
In a statement via his official X handle on Thursday, Obi called for decisive action to free the remaining 91 Chibok girls still in captivity, stating that the victims have continued to undergo different traumatic experiences at the hands of their abductors.
Obi termed the situation heartbreaking and said that every patriotic Nigerian should be worried about it. He warned that insecurity anywhere in the nation remains a threat to security everywhere in the nation.
The former Governor of Anambra State said the remaining girls still in captivity “puts a serious question mark on our compassion as leaders, who have not been able to save the young girls from their abductors, especially when you consider that the 91 is not just a number, but young girls from different families suffering in captivity for a decade.”
According to Obi, Nigeria now ranks 144 out of 163 countries measured on the global peace index, showing a high level of unrest and violence within its borders. Nigeria now ranks 10th in Africa’s most unsafe countries for women.
He quoted a report by SBM Intelligence that said, “Since 2019, there have been 735 mass abductions in Nigeria, while between July 2022 and June 2023, 3,620 people were abducted in 582 kidnapping cases with about 5 billion naira ($3,878,390) paid in ransoms. In the first 3 months of 2024 alone, about one thousand Nigerians were kidnapped.”
Obi urged the government and security agencies to make more efforts to free the remaining Chibok girls from their long decade of captivity and reunite them with their families.
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