Principal Seeks Security As Looters Target Enugu Girls’ School

“Protesters” looting Covid-19 food palliatives have targeted Queens School Enugu whose warehouse was used by the state government to store palliatives.

The principal of the college, Mrs Ada Nweke, Sunday, said the Covid-19 palliatives earlier stored in the school had been distributed by the Enugu State Government Committee on Palliatives in August 2020.

Reacting to an alleged threat by some protesters that they would storm the school to forcefully distribute the alleged palliatives, Mrs Nweke said the need to clarify the insinuations became necessary because female students of the college had been traumatized since the threat was made. She also called on security agencies to come to their rescue because ‘we don’t want what happened to Chibok girls to happen to these students’.

THE WHISTLER reports that Queens School, Enugu, was among places where Covid-19 palliatives were stocked in the wake of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, a lawmaker in the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon Chima Obieze, while reacting to the news, debunked the presence of any Covid-19 palliatives in the school. Obieze said, “I have repeatedly asked the palliatives distribution committee members if we have palliatives in the said school structure, and was told reliably and credibly that palliatives were stored there on arrival, but later distributed to every local government area through which they were shared to communities through their town union leaderships. I have also confirmed through my town union presidents, who assured me they received the palliatives on behalf of their communities and shared same.”

On the presence of security operatives in the facility despite the absence of the palliatives, Obieze stated that, “I was made to understand that over 400 school girls writing their Senior Secondary Certificate Examination are currently in the school for their NECO exam. So going by the experience of Abakpa and Emene, sometime ago, where young girls were not only beaten, robbed but were raped, it became necessary that the facility be guided for the safety of these teen girls.”