Senator representing Oyo North, Abdulfatai Buhari, has said if the Nigerian government decides to attack where the abducted school children in the state are, they would kill all the 47 pupils.
Gunmen had abducted school children from schools in Ogbomosho and Oriire Local Government Areas of Oyo State.
However, Buhari disclosed that the bandits are using the kidnapped school children as human shields in their den.
Featuring on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Thursday night, Buhari said: “When the Federal government delegation came, we went to see all the families, including the one that was brutally murdered, the lady, we were able to console her.
“We appealed to her and she was begging even if we can get her the corpse of the husband, we don’t know if they buried him or threw it away.
“The forest moves along seven states, Oyo, Kwara, Niger, Kebbi, Sokoto, and we were sharing borders with Benin and Niger.
“In most cases all these people come into the forest and it’s very thick, no beginning no end. The sad aspect is that they don’t stay in one place, they will be moving, so tracking them becomes very difficult.
“If the attack is a conventional war, it’s a different thing because these are people that came in from other country and move from one place to the other.
“The early part, they took the children to surround themselves and it was raining, so if you decide to attack, they will kill all the 47 children, they used them as human shields.
“The abductors use these children to surround themselves, basically using them as human shields. It is not a conventional war.”
