Katsina Attack: Lawmakers urge govt to secure schools

By Lawan Hamidu, Abuja

The Nigerian House of Representatives has urged the government to urgently implement the Safe Schools Initiative to protect students and teachers from attacks on schools.

This was contained in a motion under matters of urgent public importance on the recent attacks on and abduction of students of secondary school in Katsina State.

In the motion sponsored by Seventy-Six Members from across the country, the lawmakers also urged the government to expedite action on the safe return of all abducted students from the incidents of Chibok to the recent one of Kankara in Katsina.

Musa Sarki-Adar from Sokoto State who presented the motion described the incessant attacks on school as tragic and dangerous to education in the country.

“The incessant attacks on communities schools and in fact education itself are tragic consequences of a protracted security challenge that has left the country traumatized,” he stated.

The lawmakers then called for a review of the security architecture as well as transmit the Safe School Declaration to the National Assembly for ratification and domestication.

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