Some government schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, following the threat of terrorists to attack the Federal Government Colleges, made their students to write up to 13 papers in a day in order to shut down their schools.
The Federal Ministry of Education had ordered the closure of all schools in the nation’s capital.
The directive came at a time when students were writing their third term examination.
In order to comply, school authorities made students rush their ongoing examination, Daily Trust reports.
A student of Kubwa Model Junior Secondary School, Abuja, lamented how their teachers made them write 13 subjects on Tuesday.
“We went to the school with preparation to write only one or two papers, but we ended up writing 13 subjects in a single day,” he said.
The student said some of them were traumatised as they were scared of possible terrorists attack.
A boarding student in Dutse-Makaranta, Abuja, who was taken back home by her parents on Tuesday, said they spent part of the previous night to write two subjects.
“The school management summoned us back to classrooms around 9pm on Monday, and made us to write two subjects,” she lamented.
She added they later on Tuesday, they sat for more papers just as their parents were waiting for them within the school’s premises.
