The Minister of education Mallam Adamu Adamu said the Federal Government has taken security education to the doorsteps of a government colleges in other to end insurgency and to starve off abductors from schools.

Revealing this, while inaugurating a central planning committee of a model called “Save Our Children project,” Minister of Education said security education in schools had become imperative as a result of recent security challenges.

He said it was no longer news that teenagers had been the most affected, in security matter, while drawing examples from incidents of abductions and outright killings of secondary school students in Boni Yaji, Chibok and Dapchi.

He said these unfortunate incidents may have been avoided if the students had been exposed to security awareness information.

Adamu explained that, over the past decade, Nigeria had grown more insecure, largely due to ethno-religious crisis and Boko Haram insurgency in the North as well as kidnapping, cultism and ritual killings in the South. 

Most worrisome, he said, was when educational sector became the targets of the insurgents to unleash their terror. 

He, therefore, called on corporate organisations, development partners, professionals in security organisations and philanthropists to partner with the committee for successful conduct of the security awareness programme in the Federal Government colleges.

The project, which is an initiative of Security Awareness and Justice Foundation, an NGO charged with conflict prevention and security awareness, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education.

Also speaking at the event, chairman of the foundation, Sir Mike Okiro, who is a former Inspector General of Police, said the project would adopt the “instruct the instructor” method in which principals and teachers of the secondary schools would be trained on basic security awareness guides in a simulated classroom environment using tested security experts as tutors. 

He said teachers will, after the training, go back to their various schools to impart the knowledge acquired at the workshop on their students.

 Okiro emphasised that the focus of the project shall be children, who, according to global terrorism index, insurgents and terrorists regularly feast on for their recruitment and training.