Lagos Begins Public School Surveillance Amid Prevalent Students Abduction

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered incessant surveillance of public schools as concerns mount over recent widespread abduction of schoolchildren in northern Nigeria.

Ekohotblog reports that while the north has been at the receiving end of mass abductions of schoolchildren for ransom, state in other regions are becoming apprehensive over the likelihood of similar heinous occurrence in their domains.

But the Lagos state government said it’s working to forestall such incidents from happening, saying it was not under any illusions that its public schools are impervious to dangers of schoolchildren abduction.

Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, 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.

“We are working with the Police Command in the State, and the schools are under constant surveillance,” Peoples Gazette qquoted her to have said

You recall that the country has been pervaded with fresh wave of schoolchildren abduction as hundreds of Schoolboys and schoolgirls were abducted between December 2020 and March 2021 in schools across Katsina, Niger, and Zamfara.

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Subsequently, the bandits freed the students after they received ransoms, though the governments denied any payment.

In the past, Lagos has also witnessed schoolchildren abductions as militants stormed the state, terrorising  its outskirts.

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.

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

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