Discussants have called for the re-introduction of disciplinary measures in schools curricula to curb acts of indiscipline among Nigerian students. They made the case while featuring on the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State radio station, FUNAAB Radio 89.5FM live interactive programme, Boiling Point. The programme was in commemoration of the 2021 World Students’ Day with the theme, “Learning for People, Planet, Prosperity and Peace”. According to Dr. Ayedun Isaiah Segun, a Lecturer at the Protestant University of West Africa Port Novo, Benin Republic, the government should be blamed in some areas, saying if the learning environment was not conducive, there would be problems.
“Until teachers are well taken care of and the environment is conducive that is when we can have a better educational system”, he said. He urged principals and teachers to create extra-curricular activities in schools to engage the students. Also, the Commander, National School Crime Prevention Corps, Commandant Folayinka Ige, said parents should stop blaming the government, adding that it was a collective responsibility to maintain discipline. He said it was the right time for parents to move closer to school authorities in order to discuss the way forward. “Around school premises, people are selling what they are not supposed to sell and they use the opportunity to lure those students into engaging in social vices”, he said. Commandant Ige equally urged the government and relevant stakeholders to move out of their ‘political swimming pools’ and rise up to save the security architecture of schools from imminent collapse.