Following
the recent abduction of over 200 girls from Chibok, parents and
guardians in Bauchi State have expressed fears over the safety of their
female children in boarding schools across the state and threatened to
transfer their children to schools in the Eastern or Southern part of
the country.
They said the abduction of the girls in Borno
State had created fears in their minds, noting that girls were now
targets of insurgents.
Some of the parents, who spoke to Vanguard,
decried growing spate of abduction and killing of students in the
North-Eastern part of the country.
The parents, however, called on the Federal
Government to beef up security in the respective boarding schools in the
North to avert any form of attack.
Mrs Obed said: “Ever since I heard of the
abduction of the school girls at Chibok in Borno State, I have been
worried over my two daughters who are in the boarding school here in
Bauchi. One of them is in JSS 3 while the elder is in SSS 2.”
Alhaji Sanusi Ahmed, a businessman based in
Bauchi, said he had a 16-year-old daughter who is in SSS1, stressing he
had not had rest of mind since the Chibok incident in Borno State.
He said: “I have not had rest of mind because
of my daughter who is in the boarding school. You cannot predict the
movements of these insurgents because they can turn their searchlights
on any of the states in the north and abduct more girls,”
Reacting to the apprehension of parents over
the safety of their female children, the Principal of Government Girls
Arabic College, Alkaleri, Bauchi State, Hajiya Safiya Ahmed Shall, said
the authorities of the school had put in place security measures to
forestall any attack in the female hostels.
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