Numerous parents and teacher in Oyo State are in a problem over the choice of the state government to re-open schools on July 6, this year, in the midst of rising occurrences of COVID-19 cases in the state and in the nation.
During the week, three Commissioners in the state and various clinical specialists tried positive for the infection.
Presently, Ibadan isn’t where many wear facemask or watch social distancing. Hustling and clamoring in the significant markets stay unchecked, as local people despite everything accept that coronavirus “can contaminate just rich and influential people who spend longer hours in cooled rooms.”
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The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, had while talking during the gathering of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, portrayed the arrangement by the state government to re-open schools as heartless.
“For you to decide to unleash this in the public in the face of the pandemic is to be insensitive. Nigeria has not gotten to optimal testing, so we cannot forecast where this epidemic is most positioned. The least we can do is to keep our children under lock and key until we are sure it’s safe.”
“When you say the education sector opens, you are opening transporters, food sellers, and the like. The country cannot afford it now,” he said. A widower and social worker in one of the private hospitals in Ibadan, Mr. Tade Oguntunsi, captured the mood of parents and teachers in the state. # Oyo state schools.
“I became a widower about four years ago. As a single father, I am struggling to cope with raising our four children and three of them are in a public secondary school in Mokola while the youngest is at a public primary school, also in the same area. We know the facility in all these schools; if my salary could cope with sending my children to private schools, I know good schools my children should attend.
“To me, it is suicidal to allow students to resume now. I won’t take that risk. I will rather take them to other states to continue their education. We know children will play and share things among themselves. Which other state in the Southwest is taking that risk? Why the hurry?”
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