Parents withdraw children from school in Zamfara as banditry worsens

Unabating banditry in Zamfara State has heightened fear and suspicion among indigenes of the state, especially in the rural areas,

Many people living in the Damba area of Gusau, the state capital, have been moving out of the axis as it has become a bandits’ den, with terror attacks being unleashed ceaselessly.

Many parents have withdrawn their children from schools for fear of being kidnapped.

Some residents in Gusau, the state capital, have expressed fear that with the rate the bandits were operating in many villages inside Gusau Local Government Area, they might eventually move into the Gusau metropolis.

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The activities of bandits have collapsed almost all sectors including education as many parents have withdrawn their children from schools.

A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Kauran Namoda Local Government Area of the state, popularly known as Kingsley said he was supposed to have completed his Higher National Diploma (HND) in four years but he was now spending six years due to insecurity.

“Every time the school management would close down the school and send students on compulsory break,” he lamented.”

According to him, it was no longer news that the education sector had totally collapsed in the state especially when the education calendar has been totally altered due to the insecurity situation.

Between 2019 to date, available records, according to a report by DAILY POST reports, showed that four government secondary schools had been attacked by the ravaging bandits and hundreds of students were kidnapped even though none was killed.

The local governments where these four government secondary schools were located are Anka, Bakura, Maradun, and Talata-Mafara.

This development has caused setbacks in the education sector in the state, a development that led many parents to withdraw their children from boarding schools across the state.