The Federal Government has announced plans to re-open the school where girls where kidnapped in April 2014.
The Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno state, will finally re-open for the first time since Boko Haram kidnapped the schoolgirls.
The government is working towards re-opening the school in time for the 2017/2018 academic session.
If you remember correctly, 276 girls were kidnapped in April 2014, and 50 escaped soon after. Three more girls escaped on their own much later, while the government negotiated the release of another 21.
Mr Tijjani Tumsah , the Vice-Chairman of the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative, said:
Tumsah said all necessary security measures were being taken to avert a recurrence of the April 2014 incident.
“ We intend to finish with the school before next session and make it functional for educational activities to pick up.
We have varieties of programmes, including psycho-social and counselling programmes for women and girls and community engagements.
In terms of the structure itself, the school has to be fortified in terms of early warning systems to protect the girls.
A whole lot of issues that have been planned to ensure the safety and comfort of the students of the school judging by the previous unfortunate incident"
According to Vanguard, Tumsah said the committee intends to implement programmes that would reverse the devastation the region has suffered due to Boko Haram.
Also important, he said, are the de-radicalisation programs that they government intends to carry out with the Youth
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