Clark lauds Tinubu, security agencies over rescue of medical students

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By Chukwudi Onuoha

26 August 2024 | 5:50 p.m.

Chief Edwin Clark has lauded President Bola Tinubu and Nigerian information agencies for the palmy rescue of 20 aesculapian students abducted successful Benue State and 8 younker corps members from Akwa Ibom who had been held for implicit a year. READ ALSO:Tinubu hails NBS study connected Nigeria’s GDP growth, system In…

In a statement, Clark expressed his joyousness and alleviation astatine the news, praising the swift and effectual actions taken by the authorities to unafraid the merchandise of the captives.

Clark highlighted the terrible interaction of kidnapping and banditry connected Nigeria’s system and the information of its citizens, noting however these crimes person hindered cultivation activities and made question wrong the state perilous.

He recalled the tragic incidental successful Kaduna wherever kidnap victims, including a aesculapian doc connected the verge of traveling overseas for further studies, were killed, stressing the urgency of addressing the kidnapping crisis.

The elder statesman commended the innovative rescue strategy employed, which reportedly progressive utilizing ransom arsenic bait portion deploying precocious technological tools to find and apprehend the kidnappers.

He emphasized that specified operations necessitate blase exertion and coordination, making this occurrence peculiarly commendable.

Drawing from his ain acquisition successful negotiating the merchandise of hostages, including his lad who was abducted successful the Niger Delta, Clark acknowledged the complexities progressive successful rescuing kidnap victims.

He urged that the strategies utilized successful this caller cognition beryllium applied crossed the state to tackle the pervasive contented of kidnapping.

Clark called connected authorities governors to heighten their efforts successful ensuring information wrong their states, arguing that relying solely connected the President for information is insufficient.

He pointed retired that governors person successfully utilized information agencies for governmental purposes and should likewise usage them to support their citizens.

Clark reiterated his praise for President Tinubu, National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, and each progressive successful the rescue operation, urging them to proceed utilizing specified effectual methods to reconstruct information crossed Nigeria.

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