The National Coordinator, Financing Safe Schools Initiative, Mrs Halima Iliya, says plans are underway to actively engage hunters and vigilantes on intelligence gathering to curb attacks on schools across the country.

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, the National Coordinator said that aggressive community engagements and sensitization of students, parents and teachers will kick-off in the second quarter of the year.

Iliya disclosed that there are plans to also use the platform of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) because of their presence in all the local governments.

She said they will be used to reach out to the grassroots by developing some training manuals that could be converted to local dialect of communities for efficient communication.