No means of education in IDPs, says NUT
Nigeria Union of Teachers has said learners in Internally Displaced persons camps in the north do not have access to education.
NUT Secretary-General, Dr. Mike Ike-Ene, described the means of education in IDPs as makeshift.
He said, “What they are receiving is a makeshift education. If you have visited any IDP camp, it is just where men and women who are afraid of herdsmen, hoodlums or whatever has sent them from their place of residence live. They don’t even go to schools because they run to the savannah and build tents, so, where will you now establish schools? What they do is that they get bigger tents, bring everybody together and just be teaching them without any curriculum”.
He also explained that the NUT was making efforts to engage the government on the incessant kidnapping of learners in the north.
He maintained that the intention of bandits was to destroy the educational ambition of learners.
“What these people are doing is to make the ambitions of these children to die, if their ambition die, you don’t know whether they can become the president of this country tomorrow. We have discovered that going for strike or going for demonstration may not be the best option because security report will be showing that if you do that kind of thing like marching on the streets, hoodlums can overtake you and hijack the protest, so what we do now is to be writing the government and adding our own little voice”.
