The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF has lamented that parents are now terrified to send their children to school due to insecurity in the country, especially girls, who have been victims of kidnapping.
This came on a day the Aare Ona Kakanfo in Council vowed to deal with prowling herdsmen terrorizing the South-West, just as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State said he would unveil a new security policy to stem the increasing rate of kidnapping in the state.
In same vein, the Presidency in a statement said that President Buhari and governors of states in the North-west Zone were working out strategic plan to end insurgency in the zone and the Northern region. UNICEF Communication Specialist, Geoffrey Njoku in a statement on behalf of UNICEF Representative in Nigeria Peter Kawkins to mark this year’s Day of the African Child with the theme: “Child Rights in all Situations, Including during Humanitarian Crises”, said parents are now so scared to send their children to school due to the high level insecurity in the country.
