‘Stop playing dirty politics with children’s lives’ – Femi Branch over Makinde’s remarks

Nollywood actor, Femi Branch, has urged Nigerian politicians to stop playing politics with the life of children.

He made the plea in a video shared on his Instagram page on Saturday morning amid the continuous mass abduction of school children across the country and the latest release of the 46 kidnapped Orire school children and teachers in Oyo state.

DAILY POST reports that the abducted Orire school victims were released on Friday July 10 2026, after spending 56 days in captivity.

Reacting to remarks by Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde about the incident, the actor who accused politicians of politicizing the abduction, urged them to leave children out of their political games.

“I just want to make an appeal and beg us in this country. I’m not directing this to anybody but I’m begging all of us that whatever dirty politics that we’re all playing, can we just leave the innocent children out of it. The children in this country are suffering enough,  they are suffering enough.

“The so-called school they are going, the quality of the education, and everything is scrambled, they are suffering enough. Can we just leave them out of this dirty politics that we’re playing? Innocent children were in the bush for 56 days. Those kids must be traumatized by now and needed to be attended to.

“The governor came out and said he declared to be president at 4pm and by 9am the next morning is when they packed the children and the teachers away, thereby insinuating that it was a political game. Can we just leave these poor children out of our dirty politics? Please I’m not attacking or calling out anybody, I’m just appealing to us to leave the innocent children out of our madness, please “, he stated.

Watch him speak