JUST IN: Gov. Ortom orders closure of boarding schools
chuks oti
Dec 17, 2020
Governor Samuel Ortom has ordered the closure of all boarding schools in Benue State.
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This is following the abduction of students at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, .
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Ortom announced the decision on Thursday when he visited the Maximum Security Custodian Centre (MSCC) in Makurdi.
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He said he had directed the Commissioner for Education to complete necessary steps to close all boarding schools in Benue as a preventive measure against the abduction of students.
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The governor said if hundreds of students could be abducted in Katsina, the home state of the president, no place was safe again.
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Ortom expressed regrets at the abduction of students and on-going killings across the country.
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Thereafter, he called on the President Muhammadu Buhari and security chiefs to adopt new methods of addressing insecurity.
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