{"id":84463,"date":"2021-08-05T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=84463"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:44:37","slug":"fg-why-we-abandoned-negotiation-with-kidnappers-of-kaduna-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fg-why-we-abandoned-negotiation-with-kidnappers-of-kaduna-students\/","title":{"rendered":"FG: Why We Abandoned Negotiation With Kidnappers Of Kaduna Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Minister of State for Education, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has opened up on the reasons why the Federal Government abandoned the option of negotiations with kidnappers of students.<\/p>\n<p>Nwajiuba spoke Wednesday while fielding questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe said the bandits used the funds raised from the payment of ransoms to rearm themselves, thereby escalating insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on what the government was doing over the video that went viral where some of the kidnapped students in Kaduna State were being tortured by kidnappers, Nwajiuba reassured Nigerians that efforts were being made to rescue the children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly speaking, it is disheartening anytime any of our students are taken at any point, I can assure you that the federal government is doing all that it can. We have held several meetings with our security personnel and that whole region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what measures are in place to ensure that federal government schools are not attacked by bandits, the minister said: \u201cI had already said that the whole of government approaches to security exercise is not just limited to our schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the federal government owns a few federal colleges around Nigeria, out of the 25,000 secondary schools; federal government owns only 120 of them.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government was putting measures in place to secure the schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019re not limiting ourselves to our own institutions at all; we\u2019re looking at the security as a national policy is a whole of government engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of State for Education, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has opened up on the reasons why the Federal Government abandoned the option of negotiations with kidnappers of students. 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