More than 70 per cent of schools in Zamfara State do not meet the minimum safety standards stipulated in the safe school policy developed by the Nigerian government in 2021.
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One of the alterations was in the only primary school in the village, which Mr Sani heads. Four of the seven teachers who live in the local government headquarters in Bukkuyum stopped showing up at school over fear of attacks. Less than a year later in 2021, the school was shut. Education, a perpetual casualty of conflicts, has also suffered, with more children of school age outside of the classroom. With their schools shut, they are losing their first chance at education. Teachers, most of whom live outside of rural communities, cannot show up at schools for fear of attacks, those interviewed told this newspaper.
Aliyu, her first son, is now enrolled at a carpentry shop where he learns how to make furniture. His siblings spend their day playing with other kids in the area. “There’s nothing like going to school,” she said.About a dozen other teachers and school heads interviewed for this story corroborated Mrs Isa’s decreasing enrolment accounts. For instance, Mr Sani said the population in his school steadily decreased as insecurity rose.
He said the younger population “may endanger the state again because instead of doing something that will assist in development, they may be engaging in what will retrograde the state.”Banditry, which Mr Abdullahi said was also an effect of lack of education, didn’t start affecting education until the bandits started drawing inspiration from Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorists active in the country’s North-east.
For instance, Raliya Abbas, 20, is already in the third year of her marriage. She quit school after the abduction. “I didn’t want to experience that again, so I got married,” she said.“It’s simply because of childbirth,” she said. “We don’t have skilled midwives. That’s why I wish to go back to school.”The fear of bandits forced the Government Day Secondary School , Gwashi in Bukkuyum LGA, to shut down and reopen four times in the last three years.
When PREMIUM TIMES approached him one Tuesday afternoon in October, he said it was the first time anyone was asking him about the closure of the school he heads in more than three years. The school was shut in 2021 after the security situation deteriorated. According to the report, more than 70 per cent of schools in Zamfara State do not meet the minimum safety standards for schools in the safe school policy.The report noted an increase in school infrastructure “between mid- and end 2023, notably in making schools and learning centres more child-friendly.”
He said the bandits frequently travel by canoe to Barayar Zaki from where they access communities in neighbouring Kaduna, Niger and Sokoto states.
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