Nigeria Terrorism Outrage: NLC, JNI, CAN, Northern Governors Demand End to Bandit Madness Now

By: Abudu Olalekan

Terrorism Nigeria takes center stage as JNI, CAN, and NLC demand government action following Kebbi schoolgirls abduction and Kwara church attack.

The whole country is shaking with anger.

From mosques to churches, from labour unions to traditional rulers, everybody is screaming the same thing: ENOUGH.

JNI came out swinging on Wednesday. Professor Khalid Abubakar nearly broke the keyboard typing their statement. “We received the Maga abduction with absolute shock,” he wrote. Shock? That’s putting it mildly. Twenty-four Muslim schoolgirls dragged out of their hostel just forty-eight hours after Kebbi hosted a big security summit. You can’t make this up.

“Chibok. Dapchi. Kankara. Kagara. Now Maga,” he listed, voice practically cracking through the paper. “Is anybody still keeping count? Or have we just accepted that every few months some bandits will stroll into a school, pick our daughters like mangoes and disappear?”

He didn’t stop there. He asked the question we all whisper in beer parlours: where exactly is the synergy between security agencies? Because two weeks ago the Deputy Speaker of Kebbi Assembly was kidnapped and released after “something” was paid. Now schoolgirls. Same state. Same bandits. Same script.

JNI finished with a roar: “It is time for decisive action. No more rhetoric. Bring back Maga girls, Dapchi girls, Chibok girls. All of them. By any means necessary. Enough is enough!”

Northern CAN didn’t waste time either. Rev. Joseph Hayab spoke like a man who has buried too many church members this year. The attack on Christ Apostolic Church in Eruku, Kwara, where gunmen killed three worshippers and kidnapped others during evening service, broke something in him.

“These demons shot people who were praying,” he said, voice shaking. “They shot them inside God’s house. What is left if church is no longer safe?”

He commended soldiers already deployed to Eruku – the whole town is now crawling with military – but warned that these attacks feel coordinated to scatter whatever hope Nigerians have left.

NLC President Joe Ajaero dropped his own bomb. “Workers are mourning with Kebbi families,” he said. “But mourning is not enough anymore. This country is bleeding. Our children cannot go to school. Our people cannot go to church or mosque. When do we say we have had enough and actually do something?”

Even the information minister, Mohammed Idris, came out sweating on Wednesday evening. “President has put the entire security architecture on the highest alert ever,” he announced. Highest ever. Those words should scare somebody, but we’ve heard them before.

Vice President Shettima flew to Birnin Kebbi himself, stood under the hot sun with red eyes and told the parents straight: “Your pain is our pain. This is not politics. This is Nigeria’s soul under attack. Those girls will come home. The killers of General Uba, the killers of Malam Hassan Makuku the vice principal, they will not sleep free again.”

Governor Nasir Idris almost cried when he took the microphone. “We are touched that Mr President sent his number two man immediately. We are optimistic the girls will return. But God, this pain is too much.”

Meanwhile in Eruku, youths blocked the Ilorin-Kabba highway on Wednesday morning, tyres burning, voices raw. One young man, Timothy Joshua, was shouting through tears: “They took my wife and my little granddaughter from church! They were praying! What kind of country is this?”

Soldiers have literally taken over the town now. CP Ojo Adekimi camped there with his men. Local hunters went into the forest and some haven’t come back yet.

And the local government chairman in Danko-Wasagu had to release the full list of the abducted girls because some American politician claimed it happened in a “Christian area.” All twenty-four names are Muslim names. He practically begged people to stop pouring fuel on religious fire when bandits don’t check your faith before they shoot.

Everybody is asking the same thing tonight.

How many more times?

How many more empty dormitories?

How many more mothers waiting by the gate that will never open?

JNI said it best: decisive action. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Now.

Because if this country cannot protect little girls sleeping in their school hostel and old women kneeling in church, then what exactly are we still pretending to protect?

Nigeria is tired.

We are exhausted.

Bring back our daughters.

End this madness.

Or admit that we have already lost.