Insecurity: Nigeria under siege, says Catholic bishop

The Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, Bishop Man’oso
Ndagoso on Friday lamented the spate of kidnappings in the state
and described the country as being under a siege.

Ndagoso said this in Kaduna on Friday when officials of the
Catholic Men Organisation of Nigeria paid him a solidarity visit
over the kidnapping of some students in the state.

While lamenting that the fate of one of the priests in the
diocese kidnapped since March 2019 was still unknown, he said his
diocese was worst hit by the activities of kidnappers in recent
times.

The cleric also said another Priest from the diocese was
kidnapped in May 2019 but was later released from the kidnappers’
den.

According to the Bishop, the worst incident was the recent one
where four students of the Catholic Good Shepherd Major Seminary
located in Kaukau along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway and concluded
that the country was under a siege unless some urgent actions were
taken to arrest the situation.

“This is the third time kidnapping is happening directly to our
diocese.

“It is understatement to say that our country is under siege. No
other country will tolerate this type of insecurity without calling
for mass protests. Definitely our country is under siege,” he
said.

On the fate of kidnapped students, Ndagoso said, “I cannot sleep
over whatever condition they are going through.

“People can no longer sleep with two eyes closed, yet our
leaders have the gut to say that there is security in the
country.

“I think people now seem to have given up on the security
situation because there is nothing they can do, they just resigned
to fate.

“With the technologically developed security gadgets in the 21st
century, there is nowhere in the world, even underwater that
criminals cannot be traced or tracked.

“But security agencies keep on saying that they are on top of
the situation.

“We will continue to pray for them, they are our students until
they are freed. We keep hoping that God will expose those behind
the insecurity in this country.

“We have taken some measures to fortify the school environment
in order to secure the other students.”

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