‘Children now pawns in ransom economy’ – Peter Obi on Kogi school attack

The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, has condemned a bandit attack on Government Secondary School, Iluke, in Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, describing the incident as a heartbreaking reflection of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity.
DAILY POST had reported that the incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday when bandits struck, killing the vice principal of the school alongside two others and kidnapped three students.
Reacting to the incident in a statement released via his X handle on Wednesday, Obi lamented that children have become “pawns in a deadly ransom economy,” noting that the attack came barely three weeks after m...