Katsina abduction: Benue gov orders closure of all boarding schools Katsina abduction: Benue gov orders closure of all boarding schools
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Following the abduction of students at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has ordered the closure of all boarding schools in the state.
Ortom, who announced the decision on Thursday when he visited the Maximum Security Custodian Centre (MSCC) in Makurdi, the state capital, condemned the abduction of students in Katsina State.
He said he had directed the Commissioner for Education to complete necessary steps to close all boarding schools in the state as a preventive measure against abduction of students.
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Following the abduction of students at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, the home state of President Buhari, Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that the situation indicates that no place is safe again in the country.
According to him: “If hundreds of students could be abducted in Katsina, the home state of the president, no place is safe again.”
Ortom, who disclosed this on Thursday when he visited the Maximum Security Custodian Centre (MSCC) in Makurdi, condemned the abduction of students in Katsina State and also ordered the closure of all boarding schools in his state.
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The Benue, Sokoto and Zamfara state governments have all moved to close down boarding schools in their respective territories following the abduction of over 333 students from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State made the disclosure on Sunday when he visited the Maximum Security Custodian Centre (MSCC) in Makurdi, while also condemning the abduction of the Kankara boys.
Ortom disclosed that he had directed the Commissioner for Education to complete necessary steps to close all boarding schools in Benue as a preventive measure against the abduction of students, adding that if hundreds of students could be abducted in Katsina, the home state of the president, no place was safe again.