Banditry: Teachers, students shun schools in Oriire LG, as teachers stage protest

Banditry: Teachers, students shun schools in Oriire LG, as teachers stage protest

Yinka ADETUNJI

Schools in Oriire local government area of Oyo state were deserted Monday morning. Investigations by ogbomosoinsightonline.com revealed that most public schools were shunned by teachers and students.

Recall that on Friday bandits attacked three schools in Oriire local government area killing and abducting teachers and students. One of the abductees according to a viral video Sunday night had been killed.

This is as a group of teachers have poured out to protest the abduction, carrying various placards and singing solidarity songs. They demanded rescue of the abductees in earnest.

“In my school, only two students came and one or two teachers as at the time I left, we couldn’t even go into the school premises, we stayed at the school gate, fearing any eventuality,” a teacher (names withheld) in one of the public secondary schools in the area said.

It was even learnt though unconfirmed that private schools in the local government have closed schools indefinitely hinging the decision on the prevailing insecurity.

The situation remains tense as the abductees are still in the captivity of the bandits.