The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba on Monday has given instructions to all State police Commissioners to build security around schools across the country
The Force Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi made this known in a televised broadcast urging owners of schools, particularly private schools, to work hand in hand with police Commissioners and police officers.
Adejobi advised school owners to design security measures that are going to use to protest students, staff and other members of their various school communities in Nigeria.
"We have done it in such a way that our deployment are so strategic to cover many schools at the same time, particularly along the roads where we have many schools one or two patrol vans, a phone number for to protect this Schools.
"In as much as we know that we will not have enough personnel to be posted to every schools having more than 100,000 schools across the country, we have deployed police to the school's one after the other enough to provide security for our students. We want to appeal to parents and guardians to please work with the police word, which was cool authorities to make sure we protect our children.
"Please make sure you know those you are handing them over to. Don't hand over your children to wrong hands or just any individuals to drop your children off school. The custody of children is so paramount for us. You hand over your kids to the person and be sure of the person you're relating with and for taking him off in school again
The Force PRO alos admonished school owners to have very good internal security mechanism, and the man in charge of this security mechanism should have the number of their various DPOs at their fingertips", he noted.
"There's no need for you to say I don't have the number of my DPO, you should work closely with your DPO. So we want to appeal to all of us to be very serious. Protection of these students is so very paramount for us and that's why the police is coming out to remind us to be security cautious.
"We're going to do the needful to make sure our deployment is laudable enough, are so effective and efficient to protect lives and property of our students as schools resumed. If noticed anything strange in your school, around your premises, please talk to the police around you", he said.
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