The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Thursday directed heads of various institutions across the country to ensure maximum security in schools to check possible attacks by hoodlums.
Shekarau gave the directive when he led a Federal Government delegation on sympathy visit to the Federal College of Education, Kano.
He said the issue of security was not the affairs of only Federal, State or Local Governments or communities, but the responsibility of everybody.
The minister stressed the need for the authorities of the college to go back to the drawing board and take stringent measures to enhance security in the school.
He expressed hope that security agencies in the state and the country would continue to give useful advices to schools to ensure maximum security.
He said: “I believe this incident will not deter our people from pursuing their studies because we see it as a challenge to whoever is concerned to provide maximum security in our schools.
“We hope heads of various schools across the country will come up with some stringent measures for maximum security in their respective schools.
“It is unfortunate that the trend we are witnessing is that institutions of learning are being targeted.”
Shekarau, who condoled with the staff, students and management of the college, prayed God to give the families of the deceased the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss and the inured speedy recovery.
Earlier, the Provost of the College, Dr. Rabi Jibirila, had told the delegation that the students were taking lectures when the insurgents stormed the college.
Jibirila commended the Federal Government for sending the delegation to college.
The minister was accompanied on the visit by the former governors of Jigawa and Kebbi, Alhaji Saminu Turaki and Alhaji Adamu Alero, among others.
The delegation also visited the victims of the attack who were receiving medical attention at the Murtala Muhammed Teaching Hospital.