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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett Jones.
More than 250 children abducted from a Catholic boarding school in Nigeria's central state of Niger last week are still being held captive.
And there by no means the only group of children being held hostage.
It is a terrible situation and apparently very difficult for the state to take effective action.
The government has declared a nationwide security emergency and it's ordered the recruitment of 20,000 more police.
But a senior Roman Catholic cleric, Bishop Boulos D'Awayahana,
has accused the local police of making no meaningful effort to rescue the schoolgirls taken last week.
We asked him why he felt compelled to criticize the police.
Well, you know, when something happens, you know,
everyone is worried to see that something immediately is taking place so that all hands are on deck.
I know when you have an issue and you don't speak out,