Makurdi Schools Fortified With Security Over Threats

                                   

Security have been beefed up around schools in Makurdi after letters from the dreaded Boko Haram sect was discovered at Government College, Makurdi, Benue state. It would be recalled that the school received letters from the Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school and kidnap boys who will marry the secondary school girls abducted in Chibok.

The commissioner for Police in Benue state, Mr Adams Audu said during a visit to the school that all the boarding schools in the state are covered by the security operatives. In his remarks, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of the Zone, Mr Abiola Adeniji commended the proactive measure put in place by the Benue Command to arrest the situation. 

In her reaction, Mrs Elizabeth Ugoh who is the Commissioner for Education in the state thanked the police for their timely intervention in the matter. Ugoh urged the members of staff of the school to be carefull in the way they present the report to parents of the students as negative reports would escalate the issue and make parents pick their children from the schools.