The Government of Zamfara State has announced the reopening of forty-five schools in the state.
Recall that seventy-five schools were shut down in Zamfara following continues attacks by bandit and kidnappers in the state.
However, the State Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday in Gusau, the state capital that some schools are now safe to resume classes following the reduction in the frequency of disturbing attacks.
Making the announcement, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Alhaji Kabiru Attahiru, who received members of the state’s Technical Team on Education in Emergencies today during their advocacy visit to the ministry, said the school reopening is classed into three categories.
The statement reads: “While reopening the schools, we categorised them into three groups – Green, Yellow and Red.
“Green were schools located in areas without security threats, the Yellow group is for schools located in areas with little threat of insecurity, while the Red ones were schools in those areas with high-security risks.’
Attahiru explained that all 75 schools fell into the Red group at the time of their closure as it was dangerous to allow them to remain open. Today, however, he said: “I am happy to inform you that as a result of improvement of security in the state, we reopened 45 out of the 75 schools, while only 30 of the schools remained shut.
“Government and security agencies have been working together to ensure improved security in the state.
“We are hoping for more improvement in security in the state so that we can reopen the remaining 30 schools.”
The permanent secretary commended the EiE team for the visit .
