Police chief Olatunji Disu has told parents that assaults on schools will soon stop, saying the force has set up arrangements to head off such attacks.

Speaking in Minna through North Central zonal Deputy Inspector General Ishyaku Mohammed, Disu said the measures included activating systems to shield schools so that pupils could learn free of fear.

He said a School Protection Unit, led by a Chief Superintendent, was already in place with full backing, and that protocols had been drawn up for school operators to follow. He also moved to calm fears that the Lakurawa group had entered Niger State, saying officers were on top of the situation.

Mohammed said the IGP had sent all his deputies to their respective zones to size up local threats and act. Niger State Police Commissioner Abdullahi Elleman observed that the state’s sheer size and dense forests made operations difficult, especially in the north.

In a separate development, retired DSS director Dennis Amachree warned that graft and weak patriotism among politicians posed a serious danger to national security. In his book marking the agency’s 40th anniversary, he contended that the country’s insecurity flowed largely from political failure rather than from criminals alone.