The Kebbi state government has shut down seven schools indefinitely in the wake of the armed attack on Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri on Thursday.
Kebbi, Isah Arzika, Chairman Nigerian Union of Teachers NUT Kebbi state wing who has confirmed this and that the school is located on the frontlines of the areas prone to bandit attacks.
In the latest attack on Federal Government College FGC Yauri, students and three teachers were abducted from the school, and a policeman was killed in the attack, and a student sustained gunshot wounds.
“The government had directed all school principals to close any school which they believed were not safe, adding that police and vigilantes had also been deployed to the schools for monitoring and protection.
“I am not talking about only boarding schools, any school that is on the frontline and it is not safe, we would just ask the students to pack and go home, pending the time the situation normalises.”
“On these proactive measures, as you all know, we are part of the system. Because Principals are teachers, all the Directors at the Board are also teachers. It is the decision that we all took that is affecting us.
“Government has given us an order and option to take any necessary action as far as our schools are concerned. That we can close those schools which we think are not safe and prone to attacks in the areas close to the forest.”
“Before now, the state government had recruited a large number of vigilante members to look over our schools and we are very much satisfied with what the government has done.
“Some of these schools that I am talking about have policemen attached to them, honestly, we are satisfied with government actions”, he said.
The NUT chairman assured that they had already closed those frontline schools, describing such a move as a proactive measure to guard against a recurrence of the incident similar to that of FGC Yauri.
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