Attacks, kidnappings on Kaduna-Abuja highway national shame, nightmare

Kaduna-Abuja-highway

File Photo: Besieged Kaduna-Abuja highway

The attacks and kidnappings along the Kaduna-Abuja highway have become a national shame and a nightmare, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) declared on Monday night.

ACF spokesman, Mr. Emmanuel Yawe, ACF said the trend is “completely unacceptable” and asked the Kaduna and federal governments to wake up to their responsibilities.

He urged the two governments to save Nigerians of the daily nightmare on the road.

The group condemned the killing on Sunday of Alhaji Hamida Sagir, a retired Director of Protocol at the Federal Capital Development Autority (FCDA) and a governorship aspirant in Zamfara State.

Sagir was killed by bandits on the same besieged road, while several others were said to have been abducted.

The ACF lamented that both the Kaduna State and the federal government, which owns the highway, appear to be helpless in securing the lives on the road.

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The ACF said it is worried by the unrestrained acts of terrorism on the strategic highway between Abuja the Federal Capital and Kaduna the former capital of defunct Northern region.

“On a daily basis, Nigerians are being terrorised, kidnapped and killed without let on this road.

“This is a national shame and completely unacceptable to our forum.

“The latest victim of this act of terror is Alhaji Hamida Sagir, a retired Director of Protocol at the Federal Capital Development Autority FCDA and a governorship aspirant in Zamfara State who was shot and killed at Rijana.

“Indeed Rijana has become a popular spot where these terrorist attacks are committed on a daily and routine basis.

“This is a challenge that the security agencies must overcome. We are worried that everyday Nigerians are attacked at this same spot and our security men seem helpless in sorting out the security problems that make such attacks on the same spot easy.”

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