Following protracted crisis in Jos, Plateau State, the Lagos State Government has evacuated three weeks old baby and sixty-four students stranded at the University of Jos, UNIJOS.

The three weeks old baby’smother is Manya Banfe, a student of UNIJOS. The baby’s name is Daniela.

The students were received on behalf of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu by the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso.

Receiving the students, Omotoso said government acted swiftly immediately it heard that some students of the state were stranded in UNIJOS.

He urged the students to abide by Covid-19 safety protocols as they were now in Lagos and should ensure they studied their books while waiting for the school to be re-opened when the crisis abated.

Omotoso noted that evacuation followed emergency calls from the students who were stranded after some gunmen killed 36 people in Yelwa Zangam community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Accompanied by security agents and government officials, the students arrived at the State Secretariat, Alausa afternoon with their belongings in a luxury bus and other vehicles after long hours of journey from the north-central state to the nation’s commercial capital.

Omotoso, said welfare packages had been arranged for the students to return to their families safe and sound.

Permanent Secretary, Office of the Special Adviser on Education, Kasali Adeniran, who represented the Special Adviser on Education, Tokunbo Wahab, noted that the state government’s immediate response to their requests for evacuation was a demonstration of the Sanwo-Olu’s administration to security and good governance in line with the letter ‘S’ of the THEMES Developmental agenda.

On their part, the students commended the government for its efforts in evacuating them from the crisis-hit Jos and other parts of Plateau State currently experiencing violence and killings in the last few weeks.

They thanked Governor Sanwo-Olu and top officials of the Lagos State Government for rescuing them from what they described as the ‘war zone.’