By Adoga Michael Oyi
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, promise today to increase security in schools as to avoid new kidnapings in the future.
He ordered the secuty sevices to take new measures in schools to garantee the safaty of workers,teachers and students.
Nigeria's president today also welcomed more than 100 schoolgirls who were released by Boko Haram Wednesday after being kidnapped last month.
The girls, wearing hijabs, were served a meal and posed for a photograph with President Muhammadu Buhari, who promised his government would beef up security around vulnerable schools.
Buhari said the government negotiated with Boko Haram to try to protect the abducted students. He vowed to work for the release of others abducted by extremists.
Of the 111 schoolgirls abducted from the Government Girls' Science Technical College in Dapchi on Feb. 19, 105 have been released.
One girl remains a prisoner of Boko Haram because she is Christian and refused to convert to Islam. Five others are unaccounted for and are presumed to have died in a stampede when the girls tried to run away from their captors.
Buhari said that in future schools would have better protection.
'The security services have since been directed to put in place further measures around all schools vulnerable to attacks to ensure the safety of our pupils, students and teachers and school workers,' he said. 'I have tasked all the security agencies to work to ensure that we do not witness any recurrence of these incidents.'
Boko Haram extremists returned the girls on Wednesday, dropping them off with a warning: 'Don't ever put your daughters in school again.' Boko Haram means 'Western education is forbidden' in the Hausa language.
The group is waging a violent campaign in northeastern Nigeria to impose Shariah law and is against western education, especially for girls.
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