Under the aegis of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, well-known organizations for gender rights expressed concern on Wednesday regarding the terrorist, kidnapper, and bandit attacks on Jonathan leads an election mission to Sierra Leone on June 21, 2023, when he arrives in Freetown.Nigerian educational establishments, claiming that the governments’ responses have been inadequate.
As a result, the organization urged schools across the country to implement the Safe School Declaration to guarantee compliance and child safety.
Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, the founder and CEO of WARDC, brought up the issue at an initial meeting with stakeholders about the successful implementation of safe school policies in Nigeria, which was held in conjunction with the United Nations Democracy Fund.
According to the report, Nigeria had enacted the Safe School Declaration in 2018 to address issues with school safety and security.
The government announced that the N144.8 billion Safe Schools Financing Plan would be implemented between 2023 and 2026 in the final days of 2022.
The government had previously mentioned Akiyode-Afolabi stated that the safe school declaration was yet to be fully implemented in the country, observing that schools have been under severe attack from non-state armed groups and were also susceptible to bulleting by the armed forces while responding to issue. The plan would complement the National Policy on Safety, Security, and Violence-Free Schools with its implementing guidelines, which were adopted in 2021.
