The national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), has said it is highly disturbed by the re-emerging incidence of school invasion and abduction of teachers and students across the country’s educational institutions, threatening to down tools if decisive actions are not taken to address the trend.
The NUT Secretary-General, Dr. Mike Ike Ene, while reacting to the invasion of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, by armed men in a statement on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to ensure safe release of the students and teachers held in captivity.
He said it was unfortunate that the current administration has failed to secure the lives of Nigerians and school children who often become prey to the attackers.
The NUT scribe recalled the abduction of a head teacher with Olagua Primary School, Ohordua in Edo State, Alu Ola Paul, on his way to work on December 1, 2020, and released six days later.
“As a union, the NUT will not fold its hands and watch enemies of educational development to threaten the nation’s educational system to suffocation. The NUT makes bold to demand that the government must rise to these challenges and take up its responsibility to guarantee and execute this general principle and commitment of providing adequate security to all our educational institutions and the nation at large,” he said.
