The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has implored the Federal Government to take all measures in protecting schools in the country so as to make learning more secure for children.
The call was made following the highly risky schooling environment for children in the country due to the persistent abduction of children in their schools.
Officer in Charge, Representative UNICEF Nigeria, Rushnan Murtaza, who conveyed the advice in a statement,also called for the immediate and unconditional release of the 150 abducted children of Salihu Tanko Islamiya school in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area, Niger State, penultimate week.
Rushnan said UNICEF was disturbed that two weeks after their kidnap from school, the children are still under their captors.
Rushnan said: “Parents are grieving their children’s disappearance, siblings are missing their brothers and sisters, these children must be immediately and unconditionally released and safely reunited with their families”.
He said UNICEF also laments that children in schools continue to be targets of attack and that in this particular incident, children as young as three years old were abducted.
“We can only begin to imagine how frightened they are and the impact this will have on their mental health and well being”, Rushnan said.
