Nigerian government urged to deploy security to schools
KADUNA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – The Nigerian government, both at the federal and local level, has been urged to provide enough security in schools to avert attacks by bandits as schools reopen today.
“We are begging all the 36 states and federal government of Nigeria to help us and protect our children through the provisions of adequate security forces at the school premises,” the National President of the Parent Teachers Association of Nigeria (PTAN), Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, said in Kaduna on Sunday, stressing it would boost the parent’s confidence to send their children back to school.
The call is coming amid a spate of student kidnappings that have rocked Africa’s most populous country.
He also urged the Kebbi State and federal governments to double efforts towards rescuing the remaining 11 kidnapped female students of Federal Government College, Birnin-Yauri.
He lamented that the Yawuri girls were still in captivity after 445 days now and no one was talking about them.
Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed gangs. Such kidnappings in Nigeria were first carried out by Boko Haram, and later its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province, but the tactic has now been adopted by several other criminal gangs.
