El-Rufai orders schools re-opened 9 months after they were shut due to violence

El-Rufai orders schools re-opened 9 months
after they were shut due to violence



- Governor Nair El-Rufai says the institutions
should be re-opened since the state now
enjoys a form of security

- El-Rufai says the state will now commence a
multi-campus system to expand access to
education

- He thanks elders in Southern Kaduna for
helping to quell the violence that rocked the
area months ago


About nine months after tertiary institutions in the
southern part of Kaduna were shut down because of
tension and heightened insecurity, Governor Nasir El-
Rufai has ordered their reopening.

El-Rufai ordered the institutions reopened saying his
government would continue to ensure security of
lives and properties in the state.

Some of the schools shut in December following
violence in the area include the College of Education,
Gidan Waya, the Kafanchan campus of the Kaduna
State University (KASU), and school of Nursing and
Midwifery, Kafanchan.

Daily Trust reports that speaking with some elders
from Southern Kaduna in his office, the governor
confirmed that the state currently has improved
security.

He also said his administration was focusing on a
multi-campus system to further develop local
governments in the state and expand access to
higher education, make accreditation of courses
more cost-effective and respond concretely to the
desire by several communities to host tertiary institutions.

He said a memo presented to the executive council of
the state indicates that the government hopes that
the various campuses spread across the state can
over time evolve into fully-fledged universities on
their own.

“That is how the campuses of the University of
California system and those of the University of
London have evolved,” he said while thanking the
elders including Air Commodore Emmanuel Jekada
(Rtd) and Bishop George Dodo of the Catholic Church,
Zaria, for helping to restore peace in the area.

It also reported that the Fulanis in Southern Kaduna
said 54 of their members from various hamlets were
killed in the recent attacks in some communities in
Kajuru Local Government Area. The herdsmen claimed 15 others were unaccounted
for.

It was gathered that that this was revealed by the
Assistant National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle
Breeders Association, Ibrahim Abdullahi, at a press
conference in Kaduna on Saturday July 22.