Lagos Area C Command Holds Safe School Stakeholders’ Engagement Meeting

Oluchi Chibuzor

In line with the Inspector General of Police (IG) directives on safe schools, the Lagos State Area C Command has engaged critical stakeholders within its jurisdictions on the need to ensure a safe school learning environment.

The meeting equally highlighted to all the school managers and within four local government areas on the need to embrace technological gadgets and integrating the police in their security architecture.

Speaking at the event, the Area Commander, Area C Command, Surulere, Lagos, ACP Olayinka Ayoola, said all stakeholders must collaborate with the police to ensure a safe school environment.

According to him, “Whether you are a proprietor, proprietress, principal or school manager, the safety of pupils in a learning environment is very important.”

He challenged them to consider perimeter fencing of the school walls, adding that  surveillance cameras must be at work 24 hours for seven days to ensure a safe environment.

He said: “For me, what I want to discuss with them is that the pupils in the school are safe; for example, so many schools are not properly secure, like adopting the use of technology, tracking buses they use in carrying children to school and they do not involve the police in their event. So if for us to lecture them to let them know that you cannot organise any event or take your children out of the area of jurisdiction without having a police escort with them. Because we have been directed from force headquarters in Abuja to ensure that all our schools in the areas of our jurisdiction are well properly safe and secured.”