00:06Teacher Sarah Oge, a mother of a four-year-old, is home-schooling her daughter.
00:11She says she's been scared of enrolling her in a conventional school due to fear of attacks.
00:16That's one of the places where you'll find a lot of people gathered together in one place.
00:24And then mostly because children are more vulnerable.
00:30Now this one, they are young, so they definitely cannot fight back.
00:34While Sarah homeschools her daughter due to her expertise, not every parent can.
00:39Many are left with the option of enrolling their children in conventional schools vulnerable to attacks.
00:45The United Nations estimates that about 1,400 schools have been attacked, looted and destroyed in Nigeria
00:52since the insurgency began in the country in 2009.
00:56It's very alarming and scary to we students at the moment.
01:00It's not just limited to the small children in primary schools or secondary schools,
01:05but it also extends to even with the adults in the Nigerian universities.
01:09For example, some of the students of the University of Joss were abducted recently and killings happened.
01:17So it brings us to the point where some of the students are even thinking of dropping out of school
01:22or finding something else to do.
01:25The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO says more than 20 million children of school age in Nigeria
01:33are out of school.
01:34Community leaders are calling on the government to ensure more protection of schools and students.
01:39They say failure to do so will lead to the situation getting worse.
01:44They should have trained security officers that will mount the post there all over, both in and outside the school
01:52premises.
01:52I remember during our own time, we went to public schools.
01:56We went to public schools and the education was good then.
02:00But now they send their children to private universities, they send them abroad.
02:04The government says it is improving protection of schools and ensuring all abducted students and teachers are rescued unheard.
02:12The Nigerian police force says it has established a 24-hour schools protection squad command and control center.
02:19It is to provide rapid response to threats targeting schools, students and education communities nationwide.
02:25The government believes these measures will reassure parents like Sarah enough to send their children to school without fear of
02:33attack or being kidnapped.
02:34The community established officers ought to protect their children.
02:34So they experience what they say and lawful practices are not taught,
02:34So they do not celebrate their children with friends and employment and support.
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