The Nigerian Medical Association, Kaduna State Chapter has appealed to the Federal Government to help to secure the release of its former President, Stephen Kitchener.
Mr. Kitchener, 75, was abducted in Zaria on April 22. Aliyu Bappa, the state Chairman of the NMA, told journalists in Kaduna that “the abduction of Kitchener was sad for our value system.’’
According to him, the ex-president went missing two days ago when some gun men trailed him from his clinic and seized him at his private home in Tukur-Tukur, Zaria.
The chairman said two days after Mr. Kitchener’s abduction; the kidnappers have not made any contact with his family.
“We appeal to his abductors to release him unharmed.
“He is an old man of 75 years who refused to retire from active medical practice because of his fear of creating a vacuum in the already porous medical manpower environment in the country.’’
Mr. Bappa said the NMA and the entire medical community were troubled by the sad development and urged the government to redouble efforts to ensure his release.
“This inexplicable abduction of an iconic doctor and senior citizen in the course of rendering scarce medical service to Nigerians, poses immediate and permanent danger to the actualisation of universal health coverage.
“Finding our abducted elder and leader as quickly as possible will go a long way in reassuring Nigerians that the maintenance of law and order as a basic function of government is still feasible.”
(NAN)
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