The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, has described the kidnap and gruesome murder of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar by her teacher after collecting a ransom of six million naira from her parents, as a horrific, barbaric and inhuman evil act of wickedness.

The killing of the innocent Nigerian child by the proprietor of her school, smacks of gross betrayal of trust which the little girl and her parents reposed in the institution and the proprietor.

A statement by the NAWOJ President, Mrs Ladi Bala notes the increase in cases of killings for money and ritual purposes has assumed a frightening dimension thus making life unsafe for Nigerians.

NAWOJ maintained that killings, kidnappings, sexual and gender-based violence are taking a severe toll on women and girls, who are the soft targets of evil perpetrators.

“As mothers, we always with pains that this is no longer the Nigeria we grew up to know where the care for the younger generation was the responsibility of all adults and the community as a whole.” Mrs Bala said

NAWOJ appealed to Nigerians to be more vigilant, security-conscious as well as report suspicious characters to security agencies.

Funmi Adekoya