School Proprietors Task On Security Awareness
School Proprietors across the country on Thursday in Jos, were charged to be security conscious as students and pupils under their care often fall prey to security threats.
This was the focal point on the flag off of the Security Awareness campaign targeted for School Proprietors, by an agency known as Global Safety and Security ltd, in partnership with the National Orientation Agency (NOA).
School Children are victims of kidnap with their abductors demanding for ransom, hence a need to check-mate this trend with the view to equip every school proprietor with security tips aimed at bringing the menace under control, says the Director General, NOA, Mr Garba Abari, at the occasion.
Abari, who was represented by the NOA Plateau State Director, Bulus Dabit, at the one day seminar, expressed worry over the security threat to Nigeria’s internal security.
According to him, “there has been serious threat to our internal security manifesting in diverse ways, ranging from armed robbery, hire assassination, kidnapping for ransom, ritual killing, human trafficking, pipeline vandalism, ethno-religious conflicts, incessant conflicts between herdsmen and farmers, to the more worrisome Boko Haram insurgency and the recent violent uprising of the Niger- Delta Avengers”, he said.
Dabit is also quoted saying that, the escalating rate of inflation, high level of poverty and unemployment, food insecurity, the fear of marginalization, political exclusion and the struggle for resources have tended to fuel most of this crises.
He lamented that vulnerable school children have been a major target of attack by purveyors of sorrow, blood and death, stating that from February 24, 2014 when 59 students of Government College Burni Yadi, Yobe State, were moved down in cold blood to April 14th of the same year when over 200 female students of Government Secondary School Chibok in Borno state were kidnapped, stressing that, the school system has witnessed all forms of attack on our innocent and defenseless children.
The Plateau NOA boss opined that for Nigeria to win the war against insecurity, the values of healthy society most be upheld, only then shall the country experience peace, internal security and social harmony.
