The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to halt the threat being faced by educational institutions from bandits, kidnappers and insurgents in all over the country.
The call was made after a motion on matters of urgent public importance moved by Rep. Musa Sarkin Adar and 75 others during plenary on Tuesday.
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The motion noted that schools not only in the north have been attacked by criminal elements and students abducted in many instances.
It stated that, in April, 2014, a Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State was attacked and 276 female students were kidnapped.
The motion added that another attack was launched at Federal Government College Buni Yadi in Yobe State in February, 2014, whereby dozens of students were murdered and classrooms set on fire.
“In February, 2018, at about 5:50am, 110 school girls aged between 11-19 years were kidnapped from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi in Yobe State.
“Similar attacks include Babington Junior Secondary School, Ikorodu, Lagos State; Turkish international Secondary School, Isheri in Ogun State; Lagos State Senior Model College, lgbonia in Lagos State and Government Girls Secondary School, Moriki in Zamfara State.
“The most recent attack [was] on Friday, December 11 2020 in a Government Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State where hundreds of the students were reportedly kidnapped by bandits,” the lawmakers added.
The lawmakers added that the attacks and kidnappings have taken a dangerous dimension that the security agencies seem to be overwhelmed.
The House, therefore, called on the federal government to urgently bring to a halt, the attacks on educational institutions across the country.
