ABDUCTIONS: Osun calls emergency meeting over border school safety

OSOGBO— THE Osun State government, yesterday, summoned an emergency meeting over rising security threats facing schools in parts of the state.

The development follows renewed demands by the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, in the state for improved security in schools located in remote and border communities adjoining neighbouring states.

It also followed the mass demonstrations held earlier yesterday in Ibadan and Ogbomoso over the plight of the abducted victims.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the chairman of the NUT in Osun State, Babalola Babatunde, said the Commissioner for Education, Dipo Eluwole, fixed the meeting yesterday after consultations with the union.

He said the deployment of additional security personnel to schools in remote areas had become imperative to prevent attacks and kidnappings by bandits.

Babatunde said: “Schools located near forests and border communities are often far from urban centres, making them vulnerable targets for bandits and kidnappers. Being a teacher should not be a crime.”

He stated that the union had requested the deployment of more security personnel, including operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, the police, and the Department of State Services, DSS, to schools in border communities.

He added that members of the union were also set to participate in a nationwide solidarity rally declared by the national NUT leadership, to demand the unconditional release of the Ogbomoso schoolchildren and teachers abducted on May 15.

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