The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), South-West Zone, has threatened to mobilize thousands of school proprietors, teachers and students for peaceful protests across the region if abducted teachers and pupils in Oyo State and other parts of the country are not released by June 10. Based on reporting by Vanguard, the academic union issued the stern ultimatum following the targeted kidnapping of students and teachers in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.
The planned mass action will see members across the six southwestern states march directly to regional Houses of Assembly and state governors’ offices to vent their grievances over the persistent security breaches. NAPPS characterized the recent targeting of educational spaces as a barbaric attack on literacy, warning that the government’s visible inability to guarantee classroom security could collapse local enrollment numbers.
The association voiced strong solidarity with the affected families, expressing distress that schools are transforming from safe intellectual environments into high-risk targets for armed syndicates. They called on the regional governors to deploy all available state machinery to secure the immediate freedom of the captives without negotiating under duress.
Corroborating the regional outrage, a report from The Nation revealed that the elite diaspora group, Egbe Omo Yoruba in North America, issued an emergency communique expressing “deep disappointment and an overwhelming sense of betrayal over the worsening insecurity across Yorubaland.” Additionally, Oriental News reported that the Alliance for Yoruba Democratic Movements (AYDM) publicly demanded an immediate overhaul of the region’s localized security frameworks, asserting that “the current wave of crime requires proactive measures that go beyond mere political slogans.”
Echotitbits take:
The threat of a coordinated strike and protest by private school owners introduces a significant civic dimension to the security crisis in the Southwest. Private institutions cater to a large segment of the student population in this region, and a prolonged shutdown would paralyze academic calendars and provoke widespread middle-class anger. This pressure might finally force the regional governors to upgrade the operational capabilities of local security networks.
Source: Vanguard – https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/06/swest-private-schools-threaten-protest-over-abducted-oyo-teachers-pupils/, June 4, 2026
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