Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has warned President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other political leaders against issuing Children’s Day messages amid worsening insecurity and repeated abductions of schoolchildren across the country.
In a lengthy post shared on X on Wednesday, Ezekwesili
accused the Nigerian political class of failing children and lacking the moral
justification to celebrate Children’s Day.
Addressing the President, Vice President, governors, members
of the National Assembly and state assemblies, the former minister said they
had “abandoned, betrayed, and condemned” Nigerian children to suffering.
She cited several incidents of school abductions across the
country, including the reported kidnapping of students and teachers in Oyo,
Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna and Sokoto states.
Ezekwesili also referenced the abduction of the Chibok
schoolgirls in 2014, noting that many of the victims were still missing more
than a decade later.
According to her, successive incidents of mass kidnappings
and attacks on schools showed the failure of leadership and the inability of
government to protect children.
She further claimed that thousands of students had been
affected by school abductions in recent years, while many schools were forced
to shut down due to insecurity.
The former minister said Nigerian leaders should focus on
addressing insecurity and protecting children rather than issuing ceremonial
Children’s Day messages.
“To the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the
Vice President, the Governors of the 36 States, the Federal Executive Council,
the Members of the National Assembly, the State Houses of Assembly, and the
entire political class that has captured and destroyed the Nigeria State:
“Do not dare.
“Do not dare open your mouths on May 27 to wish Nigerian
children a “Happy Children’s Day.” Do not dare release the recycled,
ghost-written platitudes your media handlers have already drafted.
“Do not dare stand in front of cameras, surrounded by
carefully arranged children in matching uniforms, to perform a tenderness you
have never extended to the millions of Nigerian children you have abandoned,
betrayed, and condemned to lives of suffering.
“You have no moral standing to wish anything to Nigerian
children. None,” part of her message read.
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