Katsina state Commissioner for Education, Dr Badamasi Lawal Charanchi, has said deploying security dogs to protect school children in state-owned boarding schools will be the next line of action by the government to protect its pupils.
The commissioner who said the government had to think out of the box assured that dogs are more competent and effective than humans to detect intruders which will help to inform security agents about bandits activities.
“We were advised to deploy these dogs at each school because they have special abilities to detect intruders faster than human beings in many instances,” Mr Charanchi said.
“When deployed, dogs will alert the students and other security agents in case of any intruder or bandits when they are coming.”
Katsina, like many other schools in the North, has witnessed mass kidnap of school children and the threat of reoccurrence is palpable.
In December 2020, 344 students were abducted from a Katsina boarding school. The sad event happened at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara where they were kidnapped by bandits but they were later released after negotiations with the federal government.
Amidst the fear of bandits attacking schools, the governor of Katsina, Aminu Masari in March ordered that boarding schools should be shut down for a while.
In addition, the governor also ordered five security guards to be attached to each boarding school alongside the dogs and a well structured fence will be constructed in boarding schools.
The governor promised that his administration will re-enforce the security architecture of boarding schools before resumption for academic activities.
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