Education minister asks security agencies to find Deborah Atanda's killers

inister of education, has condemned the recent killing of Deborah Atanda, a nursing student of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti .directed the vice chancellor of the institution and security agencies to uncover the perpetrators behind the act, NAN reports.after she went out to study at night on September 5.

Two days later, Mufutau Ibrahim, the university’s registrar, confirmed that the student’s corpse had been discovered with her eyes gouged out.The minister expressed concern over the spate of insecurity in schools and the nation at large, while lamenting Atanda’s death. Mamman said this while declaring open the 2021/2022 Nigerian annual education conference in Abuja tagged: Implementation of Education 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Nigeria.Advertisement

He said Nigeria has a lot of good policies that are not fully implemented, while adding that the administration of President Bola Tinubu is keen on getting children into schools. “President Tinubu has directed the return of the 10.5 million out-of-school children to schools at the expiration of his tenure,” he said.“We are not matching the children in the country with the desired education and this is because our policies are not producing the values we need.“What we need is the action on ground and not the policy declaration. This is where I can tell you we intend to come in.

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