The Federal Government warns that schools in 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are at risk of attacks. SCHOOL.
Amid the resurgence of mass abductions of pupils, the Federal Government has stated that schools in 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, are vulnerable to attacks by bandits and insurgents.
Hajia Halima Iliya, the National Coordinator of Financing Safe Schools in Nigeria, confirmed to The NaijaEyes on Sunday that data on at-risk schools had been gathered for intervention.
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Although Iliya did not disclose the states, Commander of the National Safe Schools Response Coordination Centre, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Hammed Abodunrin, mentioned Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Benue, Yobe, Katsina, FCT, Kebbi, Sokoto, Plateau, Zamfara, and three others.
Currently, at least 465 pupils, teachers, and women abducted in the past week remain in the custody of their captors.
Less than 72 hours after 287 schoolchildren and teachers were abducted from the LEA Primary School.
Less than 72 hours after 287 schoolchildren and teachers were abducted from the LEA Primary School and the Government Secondary School in Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, fifteen pupils of an Islamiya school in Sokoto State were kidnapped in the early hours of Saturday.
However, on Sunday, it was reported that 28 of them had managed to escape, leaving 259 still in captivity.
Just days before the incident in Kaduna, terrorists also abducted 200 female Internally Displaced Persons in Borno State.
Penultimate Thursday, an undisclosed number of individuals were abducted by bandits in the Gonin-Gora community within the same Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna. This incident led residents to block the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in protest.
In response to the April 2014 abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, the Safe Schools Initiative was launched by the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, alongside the Nigerian Global Business Coalition for Education and private sector leaders at the World Economic Forum Africa.
The initiative encompasses a combination of interventions, including measures within schools, community efforts to safeguard schools, and specific strategies for vulnerable populations.
