Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda has stressed the need for the government to reduce ungoverned spaces, manage porous borders, and kill corruption, which he believes could greatly assist in addressing the prevailing insecurity in the country.
The governor made the statement while delivering the second pre-convocation lecture at the Federal University in Gusau, ahead of its second combined third and fourth convocation ceremonies.
He highlighted illiteracy, ignorance, marginalisation, poor leadership and governance, religious intolerance and drug abuse as some of the major causes of the insecurity bedevilling the country and negatively impacting education advancement.
Governor Radda said that mass abduction of school children and displacement have resulted in a large number of children of school age without access to education, which inhibits the progress and development of the country.
He calls on institution administrators to build perimeter fences around schools, to prevent abduction.
He noted that school children in Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara States in the Northwest have continued to be victims of bandit attacks and abductions for ransom, as kidnapping has become a criminal enterprise.
The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Professor Muazu Abubakar, said the choice of the Pre-Convocation Lecture, Insecurity and Education Instability in Nigeria: Way Out, was to educate the university community and Nigerians on insecurity, and the need to find lasting solutions to the menace that is adversely impacting education.
President Bola Tinubu, who is the Visitor to the university, was represented by the Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, Professor Lawal Bilbis, who inaugurated some new projects in the institution.
The pre-convocation lecture was attended by Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State, senior state government officials, and members of the academic community.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
