ABUJA—THE national leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday, faulted the inability of the Federal Government to secure schools, making innocent students vulnerable to activities of insurgents in the North-East.
Meanwhile, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, decried the killing of over 48 school children of Government Science Technical School, Potiskum, Yobe, on Monday, killing over 48 students and injuring several others, by a suicide bomber, saying the killings were unjustifiable in all respects.
It called on government to bring the perpetrators to book at all cost.
A statement by NUT Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Hwande, in Abuja, National President of NUT, Mr. Michael Olukoya, said the union was particularly outraged by the suicide attack on Government Science Technical School.
Olukoya recalled that the attack was the fifth of such on schools, leaving so many students dead and scores of others maimed and injured.
He said: “The leadership of NUT is outraged by the inability of the Nation’s security operative to sufficiently address the frequent bombing incident in schools, which has again occurred in Potiskum.”
TUC in a statement by its President and Secretary General, Bobboi Kaigama and Musa Lawal, respectively, said: “We are greatly saddened by the incident, which occurred barely 24 hours before President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of his interest in contesting for a second term as president.
“We are particularly piqued by the fact that the insurgents have hoisted their ignoble flags in some local government areas in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states and have continued to wreck havoc in communities seized by them.” (Vanguard)
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