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The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) says the federal government should go beyond issuing directives to security agencies to end insecurity in the country. 

On Thursday, bandits abducted 287 students of LEA primary and government secondary school, Kuriga in Chikun LGA of Kaduna.

The ACF, in a statement on Saturday by Tukur Muhammad-Baba, its spokesperson, condemned the abduction of the schoolchildren and asked the government to demand results from security agencies within a time frame.

The forum demanded “an instant deployment of new measures, including the Special Schools Security Scheme, the Schools Vigilante Force, and anti-kidnapping squads across the terror-prone states” by the federal government.

“In these regards, the security forces should never dither or stay on the course of plain ineptitude and ineffectiveness that characterise the current strategy to contain and stamp out terrorism throughout the country,” the statement reads.

“The federal government must go beyond bland and sterile directives to insist on results within specific time frames.

“ACF believes that the time has long passed when this terrorism is fully eradicated nationwide.

“As ACF had observed in July, 2023, when students of the Federal University Gusau were abducted (and sadly still in captivity), these disturbing incidents point to the very parlous state of security in the country, and specifically that around school children, a defensively vulnerable population.

“ACF unequivocally decries and condemns the incidents in strong terms and hereby calls for the immediate and unconditional return of the abducted students and pupils, unharmed, to their parents/guardians.”