Determined to ensure safety and security in Yobe schools, stakeholders recently met on how to ensure violence-free schools.
Participants were drawn from the Ministry of Education, Budget Planning, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), security agencies NOA, SEMA, SBMC, media, NYCSO, PTA, Persons with Disability, national and international partners, among others.
Yobe state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary School Education, Professor Abba Sani Adam, said the ministry in its approved 2024 budget has what is allocated to school safety.
Represented by the director, personnel management of the ministry, Ibrahim Audu Idriss, the commissioner stated that security and safety in schools is key and added that without safety in schools, teaching and learning would not be achieved.
In his remarks, the executive director, North East Youths Initiative for Development (NEYIF), Comrade Dauda Mohammed, said the engagement is to validate the review of national policy on safety, security and violence- free schools in Nigeria.
Dauda further stated that they started the review two weeks ago, engaging different stakeholders from all sectors of education and including parents and others.
โWe have a role to play in ensuring safety and security of pupils, students and youth in schools and other places of learning.
โThe policy is to prevent mishaps that happened previously as Yobe is one of the states that affected by violent attacks, affecting about five schools including GSS Mamudo, GSS Damaturu, GSTC Potiskum, FGC Buni Yadi and Collage of Agriculture, Gujba to Dapchi School Girls.