Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Audi, on Monday decried terrorists’ attacks on schools in the North East.
He spoke in Abuja at the flag-off of the National Schools Security and Emergency Response Centre, with the mandate to ensure schools across the country are secure.
He said: “Statistics show that about 2, 295 teachers have been killed and 19,000 others displaced in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States between 2009 and 2018 alone; while an estimate of 1, 500 schools had been destroyed since 2014, with over 1,280 casualties among teachers and students.”
He stressed the need to take a proactive measure to stop the growing number of out-of-school students across the country caused by terrorists’ attacks on schools.
