As Nigeria marks 10 years of the abduction of secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno State, a group, ImpactHouse Centre for Development Communication (ImpactHouse) has called on President Bola Tinubu to implement the National Policy on Safety, Security and Violence-Free Schools to guarantee the security of schools and students.
It said failure of the Nigerian government to secure schools in the country, even ten years after the Chibok incident, is unacceptable considering the government’s constitutional responsibility to protect citizens.
In a press statement yesterday signed by Chinomso Momoh, the Outreach and Communications Specialist, the group said it found unacceptable the persistent insecurity in Nigerian schools a decade after the tragic abduction of Chibok schoolgirls.
“It is troubling to observe that Nigerian schools have remained largely insecure ever since the horrific events of April 14, 2014, when terrorists kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.
“Despite promises of reform and increased security measures, subsequent incidents, including the 2021 kidnapping of over 300 schoolboys in Kankara, the recent abduction of 287 students from the government secondary school in Kuriga, Kaduna State, and the abduction of 17 pupils from a boarding school in Gidan Bakuso, Sokoto State, highlight the government’s ineffectiveness in addressing the root causes of such attacks and implementing sustainable solutions.”
