‘Elrufai, Closing Our Schools Since 2016 Is Unjustified’, SOKAPU Demands A Reopening
The Oasis Reporters
July 06, 2017
Over a thousand critical stakeholders of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union gathered at New Choice Hotel in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, north western Nigeria recently to deliberate on issues that concern it’s people.
Top on the agenda for the union was the vexed issue of the continued closure of tertiary institutions in the southern Kaduna axis of the State since December 2016 till date. After a close examination, the gathering “could not find any justification or rationale for their continued closure in view of the fact that the Government has given assurances that security has been restored. More so that Primary and Secondary Schools, government agencies, markets and other public institutions have been normally carrying out all activities peacefully”.
Consequently, the umbrella body, SOKAPU, “calls on the Government to re-open the closed institutions immediately unless the Government has some hidden motives for their continued closure”.
The communique issued at the end of their summit sees the school’s closure as traumatic and a loss “to students and parents by by the disconcerting fact that Southern Kaduna has no alternative private institutions”.
It therefore “settled that SOKAPU should make wide consultations and take all necessary steps to establish it’s own community institutions”.
SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLES’ UNION’S Communiqué was issued on Tuesday, July 4th 2017 and signed by Solomon K. Musa (president) , and the secretary, Anto Ogah Ambi,
