The Performing Vice Chancellor, of Al-Muhibbah Open College, Abuja, Prof. Ahmed Salisu Garba, has mentioned that the incessant assaults on learners and colleges in Nigeria, significantly within the North is an agenda to deprive the youngsters of the constitutional proper to training.
Garba, whereas delivering a keynote tackle in Bauchi on Monday, at a public listening to on Security and Safety of Colleges Invoice 2024, organised by Girls Advocates Analysis and Documentation Centre (WARDC), Syndicate in Supporting Girls and Youngsters Initiative and supported by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF).
The College Don mentioned that the Invoice which has handed the second studying on the ground of the Bauchi State Home of Meeting was commendable being the primary within the nation to sponsor such a invoice to safe colleges.
Based on Garba, in recent times, the Nation has recorded an alarming enhance in assaults on colleges throughout the nation, significantly within the northern areas.
“Bandits and insurgents have focused academic establishments, not just for the ransom they’ll demand but additionally as a way to destabilise communities and disrupt the training of our youth,” he mentioned.
“These assaults have compelled numerous colleges to shut their doorways, depriving college students of their proper to training and leaving communities in concern.
“Within the face of such threats, the security and safety of our colleges have turn into paramount. We can not stand by and permit our kids’s training to be held hostage by violence.
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“The Bauchi State Colleges’ Security, Safety, and Violence-Free Invoice 2024 is a obligatory and well timed response to those challenges. It affords a complete framework to guard our college students, educators, and colleges from the risks that threaten them day by day.”
Professor Kehinde Olayode of the Obafemi Awolowo College, Ile Ife, referred to as on the stakeholders to assist the passage and implementation of the invoice.
Additionally, the Government Director, Syndicate in Supporting Girls and Youngsters Initiative, Maryam Mohammed, mentioned that the continued challenges in Northern Nigeria, together with insecurity and violence in opposition to academic establishments, have put this proper in jeopardy.
“Allow us to deal with figuring out actionable methods that may facilitate the profitable passage and implementation of the Secure Faculty Declaration Invoice. The kids of Northern Nigeria deserve the prospect to be taught and thrive in an surroundings free from concern and violence,” she mentioned.
The general public listening to was attended by officers of the police, Ministry of Schooling, non secular organisations, pupil physique, conventional establishments, and the media.
