Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency on the country’s education sector.
Atiku made this call in reaction to the recent waves of abduction of school pupils.
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Atiku stated this via his official Twitter account: “With the latest Kaduna school abduction, I repeat my call for the FG to declare a state of emergency in the education sector, and to post 24-hour armed guards at every school in the affected and neighbouring states. No expense must be spared to keep our schools safe,” He tweeted
Another tweet read: “With 13.5 million children, Nigeria is already the world headquarters for out of school kids. This can only make things worse. It behoves on us as a nation to act decisively and excise this cancer of school abductions from our polity with clinically precise policies.”
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