{"id":24405,"date":"2020-02-10T20:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24405"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:51:29","slug":"president-buhari-reassures-kidnapped-nigerian-children-will-be-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24405","title":{"rendered":"Many killed, kidnapped in Borno as President Buhari reassures kidnapped children will be freed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWhile President Muhammadu Buhari continues to reassure the world that kidnapped children and victims will be brought home from dens, criminal elements continue to unleash mayhem, killing, maiming, and kidnapping more victims.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nBoko Haram terrorists launched a deadly attack killing at least 30 persons in a Sunday night raid on Auno village on Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway.
\nAn emotional Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, blurted out while visiting the carnage area that took the lives of two University of Maiduguri: “\u201cI am being pushed to the wall to say the truth.
\n\u201cSince my inauguration as the governor of Borno State from May 29th to date, Auno town has been attacked for about six times now. And the reason is that the military has withdrawn from Auno town.
\n\u201cWe have made repeated plea to the military to re-establish a base in Auno since it is one of the flashpoints of the Boko Haram, but nothing has been done to that effect.\u201d
\n\u201cThere were no soldiers here; they have all withdrawn. We are not being confrontational or undermining the capacity of the Nigerian military, but the fact is that we have made several attempts for the Nigeria military to establish their unit in Auno but nothing was done.
\n\u201cLook at it, for God\u2019s sake, more than 30 lives were lost here in Auno.
\nTo the military commander, the governor said, \u201cif you doubt what I am saying, can you count them by yourself.
\n\u201cInformation was circulated and we got a security report from DSS that Jakana can be attacked, and they came and attacked as predicted.
\n\u201cThis is sad because the Borno State University is not more than 8km from here; which means this is an attack on Maiduguri town. So if you cannot protect Maiduguri, then what happens to the rest of us in the city?”
\nAbout 20 vehicles including trucks, trailers, buses and cars were also burnt and destroyed by the terrorists who invaded the village.
\nGovernor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State visited the area where the villagers told him that many people including women and children were taken away in buses by the terrorists.
\nMost of those that were attacked were those that could not get into Maiduguri on Sunday as the gate to the town was shut against them having failed to arrive before the 5 p.m deadline.
\nThe governor, who was visibly shaken when he saw the charred bodies of the victims of the attack, who were burnt by the fire from burnt vehicles, requested the military authorities to dismantle the Auno gate from its present position and move it further away from the village so that it will be more difficult for insurgents to gain access into the village.
\nHe said that the Borno state government will assist those whose vehicles were destroyed in the attack as well as those whose goods were burnt alongside the vehicles transporting foodstuff and other wares into Maiduguri.
\nHe however called on the people to remain calm and law abiding in the face of the challenges, promising that government will look for a way out the situation\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, reassured Nigerians and the international community of the steadfast commitment of his government to secure the freedom of all children and other victims of abduction by terrorists in the country.
\nThe President renewed the pledge at a High Level Breakfast Dialogue on \u2018\u2018Stop the War on Children Affected by Armed Conflicts, Dividend of Silencing the Guns\u2019\u2019, a side event during the 33rd AU Summit.
\nThe programme was co-sponsored by the Governments of Nigeria, Uganda and Norway, the AU Commission and Save the Children.
\nSpeaking on the occasion, President Buhari said: ”A number of school girls from Chibok and Dapchi earlier abducted by Boko Haram have regained their freedom.
\n”We commend the gallant efforts of the MultiNational Joint Task Force and the partners in supporting the reintegration of the girls.
\n”Let me categorically reassure you of the steadfast commitment of the Government of Nigeria to ensure the freedom of all kidnapped children from the shackles of Boko Haram.
\n”We will not relent until every child, boy, or girl, every Nigerian adult in custody of Boko Haram, is freed!.”
\nThe President urged African countries and stakeholders on the continent to work fervently towards strengthening the protection of children from the six grave violations during armed conflict.
\nThe six grave violations are killing and maiming of children, recruitment or use of children as soldiers, sexual violence against children, abduction of children, attacks against schools or hospitals and denial of humanitarian access for children.
\nPresident Buhari expressed concern that these grave violations against children have continued unabated.
\n”It is for this reason that the Nigerian government has severally condemned, and is combating frontally the dreadful activities of terrorist groups like Boko Haram and the so-called Islamic State.
\n”Of course, the severity of these grave violations varies from country to country.
\n”The incidence of a single violation of children rights in any country is an indelible dent on the African consciousness and is to be deplored and condemned,” he said.
\nReminding AU Member States of their commitments to protecting children affected by armed conflicts in Africa, President Buhari reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to the protection of children in armed conflict zones.
\nHe also used the occasion to outline some concrete measures taken by Nigeria towards tackling the root causes of child soldiers and the misfortune of out-of-school children.
\n”To stem the tide of out-of-school children Nigeria embarked on an all-inclusive reconstruction of schools vandalized by the ravaging terrorist activities of Boko Haram, while returning children are rehabilitated and reintegrated into society.
\n”Our Nomadic Education policy is also being implemented to reduce the number of out-of-school children. We have also prioritized de-radicalisation and demobilisation of ex-combatant children of Boko Haram insurgents,” President Buhari said.
\nThe Nigerian leader also called on the AU Peace and Security Council to energetically champion the strategy to stop the war on children and adopt the\u00a0Child Protection Architecture\u00a0within the African Peace and Security Architecture and the Roadmap on Silencing the Guns.
\n”The call to action is now for accountability by all African States to the rights of the children caught up in wars.
\n”Let us stop the war on children. This is a wake-up call for us all to create the enabling environment for rooting out the impact of armed conflicts against our children across the continent,” he said.
\nAdditional reports by PRNigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While President Muhammadu Buhari continues to reassure the world that kidnapped children and victims will be brought home from dens, criminal elements continue to unleash mayhem, killing, maiming, and kidnapping more victims. Boko Haram terrorists launched a deadly attack killing at least 30 persons in a Sunday night raid on Auno village on Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,911,981],"class_list":["post-24405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-children","tag-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}