Deteriorating insecurity in Niger and Kaduna states is taking a significant toll on education in the two states. Parents now withdraw their children from schools in the states to safer parts of the nation. The action, which places more burden on the parents’ finances, further shows the low capacity of the states to protect school children and education facilities. The ICIR’s Senior Investigative Reporter, Marcus Fatunmole, reports.

SENSING danger the kidnapping of schoolchildren by bandits portends for his child, Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai secretly withdrew his six-year-old son, Abubakar Al-Siddique, months after he enrolled him at the Kaduna Capital School in September 2019.

During the campaign for his election as governor, el-Rufai had promised to enrol the boy in a public school in the state to set an example for his counterparts in other states, and other public office holders who send their children to schools abroad or private schools in the country.

Siddique’s enrolment coincided with when bandits preyed on the state capital and other communities in the state – killing, abducting school children and other residents.

The bandits often demand that ransome be paid, or the victim is slaughtered in the forest.

The Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area of the state is one of the facilities where the bandits have launched an attack.

Since they attacked the institution on February 17, 2021, and abducted 27 students, the school has remained a ghost of itself.

Only soldiers use the premises. Its teachers have not been deployed to other schools to work, according to The ICIR’s findings.

A number of the schoolchildren have moved to different communities in the state and other parts of the country.

Similarly, it took the Greenfield University in the state some time to relocate and resume teaching after gunmen attacked the school and whisked away 20 students and three staff on April 20 2021.

The kidnappers killed five of the students before releasing the others after collecting ransom.

Between January 2020 and the time the reports on the withdrawal of el-Rufai’s son from the school emerged, deaths from insecurity in the state were already three times higher than the North-East, enmeshed in decade-long terrorism conflict, recorded within the period.

According to the state quarterly security report, from January to September 2021, 888 people died while kidnappers held on to 2,353 persons in the state.

Chapter Two, sub-section 2b of the Nigerian constitution (1999 as amended), states that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.

With worsening security misfortunes in the state, parents like Governor el-Rufai are pulling their children out of schools to save them from terrorists, who operate under different guises, namely bandits, kidnappers and gunmen.

But the action comes with varying consequences.

How parents withdraw their children from schools in Kaduna State

Olola Akioye Seun is a journalist based in Abuja. In 2020, he pulled out his 11-year-old son from the Command Secondary School in the state capital and enrolled him in Abuja.

He said it was challenging for him to keep going with the child from Abuja to Kaduna and be checking on him because of insecurity.

Going to Kaduna by road from Abuja was risky, while using the train cost him more because many a time, he got the train tickets through the black market.

“When the issue of kidnapping in schools started happening, I didn’t have peace of mind. I kept thinking about where next the kidnapping would occur in the state. Every call from that school to me caused me fear.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/insecurity-parents-remove-children-from-kaduna-niger-schools/

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Better than looking for money to pay as ransom

Peace is all we want in our darling nation.

May Devil kill all terrorists and kidnappers, robbers in Nigeria, from boko haram, to ipob terrorist organizations, esn, bandits, evil ones among the herdsmen, ritualists, cannibals,
kidnappers etc

Any sane, honest and hardworking Nigerian will gladly say AMEN to the above if they know they are not supporting and cheering on terrorists and murderers in this nation.

Karma knows everyone address and posterity will judge us all, whether for good or for bad..

If you keep supporting evil, wickedness and all manner of bad things,
Those bad vices will surely follow you wherever you go.

We Rise.

ogelekpomgam:

And supporters of evil government that makes people suffer and die of irreparable,severe and deterrent hunger will face eternal judgement from God.them and their entire generation.isee!!

Amen , Amen and Amen.
So shall it be for anyone and everyone that support evil government, politicians or entity.
They will all end miserably in life las las.
Thanks for your prayers ogele

If you are a parent won't you do the same, and some people think security will change with the same people that are in the system now by electing them to higher positions in 2023...

A student that failed a class is not promoted to a higher class to prove himself competent...

Better

Best move. Who condolence visit help lol

Wait for it

Parents now withdraw their children from schools in the states to safer parts of the nation.

No place is safe currently.


During the campaign for his election as governor, el-Rufai had promised to enrol the boy in a public school in the state to set an example for his counterparts in other states, and other public office holders who send their children to schools abroad or private schools in the country.

El rufai is assistant to the devil.


May Devil kill all terrorists and kidnappers, robbers in Nigeria, from boko haram, to ipob terrorist organizations, esn, bandits, evil ones among the herdsmen, ritualists, cannibals,
kidnappers etc

Just mention Buhari, nobody will beat you

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Peace is all we want in our darling nation.

May Devil kill all terrorists and kidnappers, robbers in Nigeria, from boko haram, to ipob terrorist organizations, esn, bandits, evil ones among the herdsmen, ritualists, cannibals,
kidnappers etc

Any sane, honest and hardworking Nigerian will gladly say AMEN to the above if they know they are not supporting and cheering on terrorists and murderers in this nation.

Karma knows everyone address and posterity will judge us all, whether for good or for bad..

If you keep supporting evil, wickedness and all manner of bad things,
Those bad vices will surely follow you wherever you go.

We Rise.


Amen , Amen and Amen.
So shall it be for anyone and everyone that support evil government, politicians or entity.
They will all end miserably in life las las.
Thanks for your prayers ogele

Islam is peaceful

North is very peaceful

Teachers who do home lessons will make a lot of money in those states

What else did they expect to happen in a state governed by Hell Rufai.

The North is not burning na

I don't have time to wait for my parents sef, I dey go house........

I know parents of four of the boys that were K4R in that mission school in Kaduna that has withdrawn their wards and brought them to Lagos to be rẹ-enrolled in a school there.

These are people that have never even been to Lagos before and now are forced to relocate to the place all because of insecurity in their home state.

Buhari, El-Rufai, Pantami et al. Una well done ò.

Going to Kaduna by road from Abuja was risky, while using the train cost him more because many a time, he got the train tickets through the black market.

Again the only positive index that we can manage to accept was done by Buhari is again being plagued by a lot of irregularities. If I didn't read it from this man's deposition, no one would have believed that the much touted rail system is being devilled by black market. Yet Buhari's minions led by Lai Muama will come out to tell Nigerians that Buhari's rail project is the next thing after Pounded yam and vegetable stew.

This same El Rufai would contest for the post of VP and people wld still vote for him,
Awon were gbogbo

Before nko? Nigeria as a country can not even afford to police itself, coupled with joblessness and hunger.

If you're ready to be a criminal in this country, there's money to be made.

Instead of scattering little towns all over the place, people should be bundled into government supported towns and cities with effective policing. All other land should be dedicated to agriculture.

Useless govt of self serving thieves and BLOODTHIRSTY TERRORISTS!!

Nig is in wrong hands!

Hmmmm

This what Yoruba and Hausa Fulani APC brought to Nigeria because of politics.

Naija don cast!!

According to eidris Abdulkarim Nigeria jaga jaga and scatter scatter. My people Nigel is finished

The North is lost. Decades of Alimanjari culture has produced millions of uneducated and unemployable people who now are onlyt good for Jihad or crime. There is no way any govt can rescue the situation. If the most ethnically biased govt in our history, this Buhari administration, can not solve the problems of the north, then nobody can. Nigeria going forward will be 2 countries in one, a forward looking, developing south and a backward, dissese and crime ridden North. They only have their leaders and culture to blame for this sorry and sad state of affairs

Renounce sharia criminal justice system in the sharia states to enable Boko Haram and its bandits offshoots to close shops.

Boko haram is fighting for a Nigeria to be governed with Sharia criminal laws.

Without that, division of Nigeria into more manageable countries is imminent.