Rep. Bamidele Salam (PDP-Osun) has tasked the Federal Government to put in place necessary security measures to ensure adequate security for students in schools across the country.
Salam, also the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, said this at the 2023 National Children Leadership Conference to mark the 2023 Universal Children’s Day in Abuja on Monday.
He said that with the prevailing security challenge in the country, students needed extra security to be in schools in some parts of the country due to attacks by bandits, insurgents and other criminal elements.
He said that lack of adequate security in schools had led to an increase in the number of out-of-school children in the country.
