Nigerian govt must protect children – Amnesty condemns deadly attack on Borno school

Amnesty International has condemned the deadly onslaught connected Government Day Secondary School, Lassa, successful Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, wherever gunmen reportedly disrupted ongoing National Examinations Council (NECO) examinations, sidesplitting 2 teachers and a pupil and abducting an unspecified fig of students.

In a statement, Amnesty International described the onslaught arsenic a sedate battle connected children’s close to education, stressing that schools indispensable stay harmless spaces.

“Schools should and indispensable beryllium places of safety, and nary kid should person to take betwixt their acquisition and their life,” the enactment said.

Amnesty International warned that the abducted students look superior risks and noted that wide fearfulness of attacks has forced galore schools crossed bluish Nigeria to stay bare for years.

According to the rights group, it has documented astatine slightest 13 incidents of schoolhouse abductions since 2023, describing the inclination arsenic unacceptable and blaming what it called the nonaccomplishment of governments astatine each levels to adequately support schools.

“The extortion of children’s lives is paramount, and the Nigerian authorities has a work to guarantee that the country’s acquisition assemblage is not further ...