We’ll Provide Psychosocial Support To Released Jangebe Girls – UNICEF Says 

BY ADEYEMI AKANJI, BAUCHI – The United Nations International Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has said that it would be providing psychosocial support to the abducted and released Jangebe School girls and their families.

It said it would achieve this by working with the Ministry of Education on how to ensure the safe return to school of all children in Zamfara State.

This is as it declared that the continuous abduction of students in the country is reprehensible and a violation of the rights of children to education.

UNICEF representatives in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, who stated this while commenting on the release of abducted schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara State, said that the Fund is relieved with the news of the release of over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State, North-west Nigeria, who were kidnapped during an overnight attack at their school in the early hours of Friday, February 26, 2021”.

UNICEF in a statement said that while it rejoices at the release of the schoolgirls and look forward to their safe return to their families, reiterated that attacks on students and schools are not only reprehensible but a violation of the rights of children to education.

According to UNICEF; “It is a right that any society can ill-afford to violate. UNICEF calls on the Government of Nigeria to take all measures to protect schools in the country so that children will not be fearful of going to school, and parents afraid of sending their children to school”.

“Schools must be safe places to study and develop, and learning should not become a risky endeavor”.