2020-12-16 02:35:18 GMT2020-12-16 10:35:18(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ABUJA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) The national union of Nigerian teachers on Tuesday threatened to down tools over recent attacks on schools, including Friday s abduction of students in the country s northwestern state of Katsina.
Recent attacks have posed a threat to the lives of teachers and students, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) said in a statement, in response to the attack on the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, in which more than 300 students went missing.
The latest attack in Katsina sent shivers through the spine of other members of the union in the academic community, the union noted.
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A grieving parent, Aminu Dayyabu, whose son, Aminu Faruq is among the missing children from Friday’s attack on Government Science Senior Secondary School, GSSS, in Kankara, Katsina State, yesterday, begged the Federal Government to pay ransom and set free their children from their abductors. He spoke the mind of other parents of the missing students.
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THE National leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened to down tools if decisive actions are not taken to address the ugly trend, saying it is highly disturbed by the re-emerging incidence of school invasion and abduction of teachers and students across the country’s educational institutions.
NUT Secretary-General, Dr Mike Ike Ene, while reacting to the invasion of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, by armed men in a statement on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to ensure the safe release of the students and teachers held in captivity.
He said it was unfortunate that the current administration has failed to secure the lives of Nigerians and innocent school children who often become prey to the attackers.
The body threatened to go on strike if attacks on schools is not halted.
“In light of these recent developments, the Nigeria Union of Teachers may be compelled to down tools pending when it is safe for our members to teach and guide our pupils and students without fear of abduction by these faceless enemies of educational prosperity of the Nigerian Nation,” the statement said.
The teachers’ body maintained that the recent condemnable events of bandits’ attack on schools, if not immediately addressed, will largely affect the 2019/2020 academic calendar, which has already been disrupted by the six month long lock down caused by the COVID- 19 pandemic.