By Jimoh Ahmed, Ikare-Akoko

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Concerned stakeholders in the education sector in Akokoland have raised alarm over incessant kidnapping of school children, their teachers in some parts of the country.
According to them, this is a wrong signal to achieving education for all in the country.
A retired senior lecturer with the Federal College of Education, Okene in Kogi State, Mr Alaba Ajongbade, in a chat with The Hope, noted that without education no country can move forward technologically.
Ajongbade described the actions of bandits and Boko Haram elements as very retrogressive, wicked and callous.
In his comment, a retired school principal, Alhaji Jimoh Ayegboka, said that kidnapping of children for days and months for payment of ransom was very traumatic babaric and an attempt to truncate the education of the children.
He called on all authorities, particularly those dealing with security to be more proactive in securing lives and properties of Nigerians.
The Chairman Nigeria Union of Teachers, Akoko Northwest Local Government, Mr Martins Ayinde, urged other Nigerian governors to emulate Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s strategies on security particularly the effectiveness of Amotekun Security Network in Ondo State.
He however appealed for additional security guards in schools in Ondo State while schools without perimeter fence should be provided with one immediately.