A non governmental organization, Friends of Police in collaboration with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps have taken a strategic move on how best to secure schools across the nation begining with Nasarawa State.
Chairman, Friends of Police, Ibrahim Babayo, stated this during a safe schools security initiative training, held at Faculty of education, Nasarawa state University Keffi, recently.
The programme tagged, training and retraining, a tool and solution to inscurity drew teachers from public schools across the state for a one day Sensitization seminar to brainstorm on the way forward, reeling out solutions in safety of students schooling in various schools in the state.
Speaking at the event, the chairman, friends of police, Ibrahim Babayo, said insecurity is beyond banditry, Kidnapping and other crimes but also involved poverty in the society, charging secondary and primary schools to ensure the safety of their school environment against any security breach.
Ibrahim Babayo, further disclosed that safe schools security initiative have a standard operation procedure and a multidisciplinary approach to solve insecurities in schools and the host communities to include, Kidnapping, banditry, rape, robbery and house breaking.
Speaking on the topic, proactive security in the society, the deputy state commandant Anty fraud of the Nigerian security and civil defence corps NSCDC, Lafia, DCP Serah Irukera, identified bullying, harassment, threats and intimidation, physical alterations, drug abuse and conflicts between teachers among others as factors that contributed to the falling standards of education.
She charged school proprietors to be mindful of who to employ as private security guards in their various schools as according to her, must of them perpetrated crimes particularly at night.
Other speakers include, Doctor Tunde Oke and keffi area commandant, NDLEA, Mr. Ndubusi agabus, commended friends of police for organizing a programme which is geared towards curbing security challenges in various schools across the state and urged teachers and parents to always protect the lives of students and pupils through formulation of the appropriate security measures.
