The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the
police’s initial denial of the abduction of residents in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna
state as “shameful’.
On Sunday, gunmen attacked three churches in the community
and whisked away over 100 worshippers attending church service.
On Monday, the Kaduna police command dismissed the reports
as a falsehood spread by “conflict entrepreneurs” seeking to disrupt the
state’s relative peace.
Muhammad Rabiu, the state’s commissioner of police,
challenged those spreading the reports to provide names and details of the
victims, insisting that there was no record of such abductions.
Following police denial, the Christian Solidarity
Worldwide–Nigeria (CSW-N), a human rights group, said the abductions took
place, adding that security operatives obstructed efforts to independently
verify the incident.
On Tuesday, Benjamin Hundeyin, public relations officer
(PRO) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), confirmed the abduction, saying
tactical and intelligence assets have been deployed to rescue the victims.
‘DENIAL SHOWS APC TREATS INSECURITY WITH LEVITY’
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Ini Ememobong, PDP
spokesperson, said the federal government’s silence and the “outright denial”
of the abduction by the Kaduna police command and Kajuru LGA chairman is a
“dangerous pattern recurrent in the course of this administration’s
normalisation of insecurity and a deliberate attempt to obscure the truth from
Nigerians”.
“These denials are deeply hurtful, not only because they are
evidently false, but because they reveal the manifest levity with which this
administration treats serious matters like security,” the statement reads.
“What makes this even more painful is that, according to the
villagers, the police were immediately alerted when the kidnapping occurred.
They had the opportunity to act. Instead, they chose denial, prioritising the
government’s image over the lives of 163 Nigerians.
“This act of public betrayal and failed cover-up is most
shameful and condemnable.”
Ememobong asked the Kaduna police command and the Kajuru LGA
chairman to apologise to Nigerians for the denial.
The PDP spokesperson also urged the federal government to immediately deploy a high-powered security team to trace, rescue, and safely return these kidnapped Nigerians to their homes and families.
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