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From the very beginning of @BBOG_Nigeria , one Key Demand we made of @NigeriaGov was the decisive apprehension and conclusive prosecution of ANYONE involved in abduction of Nigerians. We wanted this for Deterrent effect.
Well, our Demand fell on deaf ears of our leaders.
The failure of successive Administrations to heed Citizens’ Demand for effective and predictable Punishment or Penalty for Bad Behavior is what created a thriving markets of Illegalities in our country.
That our Children are victims of this Governance Failure breaks the heart.
In the same way our Governmental systems and leaders failed our #ChibokGirls #DapchGirls #LeahSharibu so also this latest case of the 9 children kidnapped in Kano &taken to Anambra.
These ARE CRIMES. Crimes against our weak & vulnerable.
@NigeriaGov should stop failing them.
There can be no Ifs or Buts, in punishing Crime in any society that cares about Law & Order.
Those who abduct any of our NIGERIAN children (regardless of their region or religion) must be swiftly, decisively and conclusively prosecuted.
That’s what Governments do.
Do it. Do it!!
As far back as 2014, we @BBOG_Nigeria placed the agenda of setting up a #MissingPersonsRegister and #MissingPersonsBureau on the table of the @NigeriaGov .
We started off the work on this after a while with the National Human Rights Commission. The FG stepped in and took it over.
Reading this story of the kidnapped 9 children #Kano9 makes one feel extremely sad that our @BBOG_Nigeria vision to have the @NigeriaGov set up a functional #MissingPersonsRegister and #MissingPersonsBureau remain unmet.
There are simple ways to Safeguard our children. Why fail?
Must we wait for another set of Nigerian children to be abducted by criminal gangs which today operate with a strong sense of utter impunity, before the @NigeriaGov realizes that the constant non-prosecution of Crimes is killing the country?
Give #Justice to our Children NOW.
Only one institution exists in society with the relevant power to roll back the thriving Market of Criminality in Nigeria today. That institution is not at all any group of Citizens.
It the @NigeriaGov headed by @NGRPresident who at this time is @MBuhari . It is their DUTY.
Teaching our Citizens to know & understand who precisely they should Demand Accountability from when things happen in our country is the kind of work groups like @EiENigeriamust continue to do.
Public Accountability is a DUTY. There are no halfway houses to substitute for this✍🏾
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