Parents of the 39 students abducted at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisatioin, Afaka, Kaduna state, say the silence by the state government on the fate of their children makes them hopeless each passing day.
The students were abducted at their college 12 days when bandits invaded their schools early morning.
Kaduna state is one of the strongholds of bandits in northwest Nigeria.
The parents said at a press conference on Monday that they do not think enough was being done by the government to rescue their children. They therefore gave a 48 hours ultimatum to the government to rescue the abducted students.
Spokesman of the parents, Friday Sanni, said unlike Katsina, Zamfara and Niger states, where governments acted swiftly and ensured safe and timely rescue of abducted persons in their state, Kaduna state government was not doing enough in that direction.
He said: “It is now 12 dark dreary days since the unfortunate incident happened and we as parents have not received any positive message from either the school management, the Minister of Environment under whose ministry the school is or the Kaduna State Government under whose territorial jurisdiction the school is located. This silence is unacceptable as it only feeds our hopelessness with each passing day.
“We have therefore called for this press conference to call the attention of Government at State and Federal levels and all stakeholders involved, and indeed the world, to act with dispatch to ensure the immediate and safe release of our children.”
