8yrs after Chibok, over 1,500 school children abducted in Nigeria

By Oluwaseun Sonde

Amnesty International has revealed that eight years after the chilling abduction of 276 Chibok school girls by Boko Haram, more than 1,500 Nigerian school children have been abducted by armed groups.

The Group who made this revelation on its social media platform under its new investigation on Thursday, accused Nigerian Authorities of falling in its duty to protect vulnerable .

Amnesty lamented that increase in brazen manner of recent abductions show that the Nigerian authorities are failing to prevent these crimes from taking place.

"And have not learned any lessons from the abduction of the Chibok school girls eight years ago. Nigerian is failing to protect vulnerable children.

The Organization said by refusing to respond to alerts of impending attacks on schools across northern part of the country, the authorities failed to prevent mass abductions of thousands of school children.

Added that in all cases, Nigerian authorities have remained shockingly unwilling to investigate these attacks or to ensure that the perpetrators of these callous crimes face justice.

"Every fresh attack is followed by further abductions that deprive school children of their right to liberty and leave victims’ families with no hope of accessing justice, truth, or reparations.", Amnesty International said.