Insecurity: Jigawa inaugurates Safe School Coordination Committee

Jigawa State Government successful collaboration with UNICEF has inaugurated the State Safe School Coordination Committee to guarantee the extortion of children and learning environment.

Special Adviser to the Governor connected Security Matters, Usman Muhammad disclosed this during the inauguration of the committee successful Dutse.

He said the committee is to heighten information successful schools by coordinating with information agencies and stakeholders, receiving and referring complaints, and maintaining exigency hotlines.

“We are taking strict measures to respond and guarantee maximum information and extortion of schools and our children crossed the state.

“The committee volition see Issues that has to bash with hazards, unit against children, negligence, intersexual abuse, among others,” helium said.

Usman noted that the authorities authorities volition to thing imaginable to enactment the committee to guarantee safer learning environments.

Education Specialist, UNICEF Kano Field Office, Muntaka Muktar, said Nigeria has experienced respective attacks connected the acquisition sector.

He said the North-East is the worst deed successful specified attacks, resulting successful the closure of galore schools and disruption of learning activities.

“The attacks person go much aggravated successful caller times, with cases of abduction of schoolhouse children connected the rise. Ransoms person had to beryllium paid to the perpetrators, either by the authorities oregon by parents, successful each instance.

“More than 910 schools person been destroyed by non-state actors, and astatine slightest 1,500 person been forced to close,” helium said.