EBOLA - School Owners Disagree With FG Over Resumption Date

Private school owners in Lagos State have disagreed with the Federal Government’s order directing all primary and secondary schools in the country to resume on October 13, 2014, instead of the anticipated September 15 as the school owners, under the umbrella of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, believe that the directive is unnecessary and should not be considered as part of the measures to prevent the spread of Ebola virus in the country.


The Lagos State President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Mr. Yomi Otubela, said:

“We have sent our appeal to the Federal Government through the Lagos State Special Adviser on Public Health informing it that if religious organisations and other places are left open, these children could as well contract the virus there. 

“If markets that have more crowd than what we have in schools are not asked to close down, then we wonder why the government will not allow us put preventive measures in place and allow these children return to school.  

School is supposed to be a place of knowledge and we are to educate and expose them to the knowledge on what they need to know to prevent the spread of the virus, not keeping them out of schools and keeping them ignorant of what is happening.”