Ogazuma Advocates Increased Security For Students

       Mohammed Shosanya

Edutainment Communicator and Veteran Broadcaster, Ms Debrah Ogazuma,has implored government at all levels to provide increased security for students especially the females.

She spoke last Thursday in Lokoja at the 8th Annual Conference of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) with the theme: “Nigeria: Tackling Insecurity, Power Deficit, and Transitioning to Digital Economy.”

According to her, it has become obvious that since the capture of Chibok girls,  the girl child education has been  seriously threatened.

Ogazuma,who regretted the impact of the abduction of the Chibok girls and more similar cases  to the girl child,  lamented  that the most attacks on the educational institutions were targeted at the females.

She called on the authorities to work toward putting an end that  even as urged them to  put  in place measures for  healing when such girls regain freedom from their adoptors.

She urged media not to remain silent rather work assiduously towards changing the narrative through their reportage.

She spoke on digital economy,and insisted that Nigeria must follow the trend of digitalization for economic growth,regretted that power deficiency  has been a major issue.

She noted that the future is driven with innovation and full of opportunities for expanding digitally added  that Nigeria must engage the younger  generations in order not to be left out.

Proffering solutions,Ogazuma stated that traditional method of involving traditional rulers reporting and fishing out possible dangerous elements seeking entrance into their community must be reactivated.

Communities,she said,should do more to ensure  that they are not totally  helpless.

She spoke on power,and called for replication of setting up of small power plants by communities,which she said has been done in some communities within states in the country.