Yobe: Dapchi School Shut Over Fear Of Fresh Attack - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 7, 2019
The Parents TeachersAssociation, PTA and the Association of Abducted Dapchi Children have closedGovernment Girls Science Technical College Dapchi, Yobe State, over fear of arenewed attack by Boko Haram insurgents.
A source in the schoolsaid the association shut the school following security directives to evacuatethe school girls on three different occasions.
The chairman of theabducted Dapchi schoolgirls parents association, Bashir Manzo while confirmingthe closure, said the JTF commandant in the town had instructed them toevacuate the girls to a traditional ruler’s house.
Manzo said they hadwritten letters to heads of security agencies and the Ministry of Education inthe state informing them about the decision they took. He added that thestudents would remain at home until adequate security measures were taken toensure their safety.
The school is whereone hundred and four school girls, along with the lone Leah Sheribu still incaptivit were abducted on February 19, 2018.