FCT rural schools still shut despite resumption – PTA chair
The Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Usman Abubakar, has said many schools in rural communities which share borders with troubled communities in Niger State are yet to resume despite the FCTA directive on school resumption. Abubakar, who spoke with City & Crime in Gwagwalada Area Council on […]
Pupils in class in one of the mega schools built and recently commissioned by the Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum in a low-income community called Abuja-Sheraton at Maisandari ward of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council in Borno State
The Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Usman Abubakar, has said many schools in rural communities which share borders with troubled communities in Niger State are yet to resume despite the FCTA directive on school resumption.
Abubakar, who spoke with City & Crime in Gwagwalada Area Council on Thursday, said, “Schools in the Yaba axis and some other communities that share boundaries with neigbouring villages in Niger State are still shut because reports coming from those axes over security threats as a result of the activities of bandits and kidnappers are quite worrisome.”
He noted that, “We expected that before resumption the government would have put in place security measures in these schools.”
He, therefore, appealed to the FCTA to liaise with community leaders in mobilising vigilantes to safeguard the affected rural schools in order to enable students and pupils to resume academic activities.