For the University of Jos, UNIJOS, the authorities has resorted to local alternatives to protect it’s territory.
It’s Vice Chancellor,Professor Sebastien Mamaiko,said the measure is to beef up
security within and around the campus, its vice-chancellor Prof.
Sabastine Maimako has stated.
Maimako announced this on Tuesday during the valedictory session to
mark the end of his five-year tenure.
He said: “It is no longer news that the security situation in the
country is quite tenuous. This is why under my administration we made
frantic efforts to ensure that all lives and property within the
University are adequately protected. When we got a security report
that we were the soft targets, we closed our hostels for almost two
weeks and suspended lecturers eventually.
“Now before we could reopen, we were given a condition that we must
employ the services of local hunters to help us secure our hostels,
particularly at night.
“Today, this is where we are but thanks to God the Director of Peace
and Conflict Studies looking at the happening, he has offered to train
these hunters on the rule of engagement in their working in the
university,” he said.
He noted the institution has collaborated with various security
experts for a significant drop in crimes on campus while some staff
were recruited to address the deficits in security personnel.
He said his administration initiated and completed 85 projects which
have been commissioned.
The Vice chancellor explainedthat out of the 75 programmes, which the
institution was to run, 43 have full accreditation status while 30
programmes have interim accreditation status.
The Nation
