BAUCHI — 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.
A civil servant, Mrs. Regina Obed, expressed fear over her two teenage daughters schooling in Federal Government Girls College in Bauchi State, saying she was contemplating transferring them to the southern part of the country to complete their secondary education.
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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