Ambode to Boost Schools’ Security with 3000 Commissionaires

The Lagos State Government has readied more than 3,000 commissionaires in its bid to beef up security in public schools. The commissionaires, who would be identified by their dark green uniforms, are majorly young men and women, who took part in a passing out parade recently at the Task Force Yard, Oshodi.

Very shortly, they would become a regular features in all public primary and secondary schools in the 57 Local Governments and Community Development areas of the state. This commissionaire-based security project is one sure way of protecting primary and secondary school students and their teachers from being kidnapped.

According to the Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of National Legion, Colonel Fola Akande, the initiative was principally to stem kidnapping, abduction, cultism, hooliganism, indiscipline, and other lawless and criminal acts, that could affect safety of the students, teachers and other workers in a school environment.

According to the Chairman, this initiative by Ambode’s Administration is a clear signal to teachers, students and other stakeholders in education sector, as well as the general population, that his government would neither tolerate any act that could jeopardize the safety and security prevailing in all school and tertiary education institutions in the state, nor would it permit anything that could erode the conducive learning condition in the state.