Nigeria Union of Teachers has said learners in Internally Displaced persons camps in the north do not have access to education.
Speaking in an interview with our correspondent, NUT Secretary-General, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, described the means of education in IDPs as makeshift. He said, “What they are receiving is makeshift education. If you have visited any IDP camp, it is just where men and women, who are afraid of herdsmen, hoodlums or whoever has sent them packing 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 effort to engage the government on the incessant kidnapping of learners in the north. Ike-Ene said, “We are engaging government, we are equally making our own contributions, remember that teachers too are parents so very many a times our children are in these numbers that are being kidnapped, remember that teachers equally are being killed especially in the north-east, north-west, very many of teachers have been kidnapped and killed, some have been cleared, their families have been cleared.