Senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Sunday Marshall Katung, has called for a better response to resurgence of mass abductions of people, especially school children.
Katung said incidents of mass abductions were predictable, hence the need for a quick but strategic and emphatic response to the situation.
The lawmaker made the call in a statement while reacting to the recent abductions of about 500 persons in Kaduna State, including 287 schoolchildren at Kuriga LEA Primary School.
He expressed fear that if a better response to the security challenges is not adopted, the country will continue to deal with the aftermath of kidnappings, banditry, and criminalities in its communities.
Katung, who describeed the abduction of Kuriga school children as a direct attack on the nation’s educational growth, sympathized with Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, as well as the people and parents of the kidnapped Kuriga students.
He also promised to lobby his colleagues in the upper chamber of the National Assembly for collaboration of any form with Governor Uba Sani, towards tackling the security menace.
According to him, the continued incident of mass abduction of school children in Nigeria is assuming a normative pattern that is a sad reminder of previous kidnappings suffered by the country.