The murderers of Nigeria never sleep. Now 1,000 children witnessed in a police station mysteriously disappear overnight.Igbo children sold into slavery in the Sahara? Children to be used for fetishism? Children to be subjected to ritual murder by the Nigerian fascist police?
Yes, in this evil country, every situation is taken for possible monetary gain.
And the evil are out to use this confusion for more evil.
God help the children!
The World is beginning to get an idea about the incompetent two faced oaf, even the BBC is scandalised by the man deriding victims of misfortune.
Now you see why there is all the clamor.
People of Lagos oust the military from your city and the police too. Build your own ethnic militia of honest and moral men who work for the good of mankind. This child stealing cannot go without a public uproar.
All should occupy the police station until the 1,000 missing children are brougfht back.
This is life and death, today is the day for you to fight for justice, for NOTHING ILKS ME MORE THAN CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
This is a battle of good against evil, oust these beasts from your midst.
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Low Graphics Thursday, 31 January, 2002, 12:52 GMT
Fears for missing Lagos children
The search continues for the many who are missing
There is still confusion as to the wherabouts of hundreds of children, missing since the explosions at a Lagos military barracks last Sunday night.
The commissioner of police should direct all police stations to hand over children in their custody to the Red Cross
Godwin Johnson
Nigerian Red Cross
Reports said that frantic parents were complaining that police were refusing to allow them to claim their children.
The Nigerian Red Cross is trying to find more than 1,100 people, four days after explosions at a military armoury caused more than 600 deaths.
Most of the missing are children aged between four and 11 years, and families are distraught and angry.
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There was also widespread shock when a TV news report showed President Olusegun Obasanjo telling grief-stricken mothers to "shut up" when he visited the site. He has since apologised.
Homeless and missing
"The commissioner of police should direct all police stations to hand over children in their custody to the Red Cross," Godwin Johnson, Red Cross programme officer for Lagos, told the Reuters news agency.
Child trafficking is rife in the region
According to Reuters, Red Cross officials said witnesses had reported seeing over 1,000 children at the Oduduwa police station in Ikeja district on Sunday night.
But Red Cross workers who arrived the next morning were told they had gone.
The local Vanguard newspaper also said 172 people, mostly women and children, who sheltered in a Roman Catholic mission on Sunday night had been forcibly removed by armed soldiers on Monday.
The Red Cross has set up two camps to register displaced people and to provide food, water, clothing and comfort.
As of Thursday, some 7,000 people have been registered as displaced or homeless.
Extra volunteers have also been taken on to help with counselling and psychological support for victims.
Both houses of the Nigerian parliament have set up independent inquiries into the disaster, and the army has been ordered to conduct its own investigation.
Shock and anger
Anger at the scale of the tragedy was fuelled by the television pictures showing President Obasanjo berating the wives of soldiers at the Ikeja army cantonment the day after the explosions.
But in a statement released late on Wednesday, the president said he was sorry for his remarks, which he made in the belief that no lives had been lost.
Anger is mounting at President Obasanjo
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar also witnessed local anger first-hand on Thursday when soldiers who had lost their homes in the blast pelted his car with water bottles, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, Nigerian insurance companies were due to meet on Thursday to consider how to cover the cost of the massive destruction to homes, offices and factories.
Several manufacturers have reportedly been warned by insurance companies that they would not be covered because destruction of property by military munitions would be considered an "act of war".
This would apply even if war had not been declared.
But in a statement, the Nigerian Insurers Association dismissed those fears, saying insurers would settle all credible claims.
The vast majority of ordinary Nigerians, however, do not have insurance, and questions are being asked as to how or whether the government will compensate them.
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