Governor Sanwo-Olu Issues Fresh Order To Lagos Schools

Governor Sanwo-Olu Has Issued Fresh Order To Lagos Schools.

Governor Sanwo-Olu has mounted “constant surveillance” on public schools due to the rampant abductions of schoolchildren in northern Nigeria by bandits, OnyxNews Nigeria reports.

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While most recent mass abductions of schoolchildren for ransom took place in the North, there is a likelihood of copycat attacks in a city like Lagos, which had experienced.

But the Lagos Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, told our correspondent that the government was not under any illusions that its public schools were impenetrable.

In a terse message, Ms. Adefisayo said that the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration was working with the police command in Lagos to provide “constant” security cover for schoolchildren, particularly those in public boarding schools.

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“We are working with the Police Command in the State, and the schools are under constant surveillance,” she said.

Between December 2020 and March 2021, bandits abducted hundreds of schoolboys and schoolgirls across Katsina, Niger, and Zamfara. The bandits freed the students after they received ransoms, though the governments denied any payment.

In the past, Lagos has had its fair share of schoolchildren abductions as militants besieged the state, wreaking havoc on its outskirts.

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Gunmen, on February 29, 2016, abducted pupils of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu.

Later that year, on October 6, assailants described as militants attacked Igbonla Model College in Epe, abducting the school’s vice-principal, teacher, and pupils.

Also, in May 2017, the Epe school was attacked by gunmen, abducting pupils and staff.