The Oyo State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Samson Tojuade Adedoyin has said that it is a welcome relief for schools to re-open after students have been made to stay at home for months due to the COVID 19 Pandemic and that the arguments proffered by stakeholders against it, particularly by the federal government in the past have been political.
He made this declaration while speaking in an exclusive interview with PMParrot/Parrot Xtra Magazine in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
According to Comrade Adedoyin, schools’ resumption has been long overdue as the students and Nigerians at large cannot stay at home forever.
He said the Coronavirus pandemic posed a great challenge both health-wise, socially, politically and economically in all ramifications to Nigeria as a nation and the world at large saying “the onus lies on us to find a solution to the problem in order to manage it well.
“We thank God for everything. We all have had to pass through this serious challenge. It has affected a lot of things. But can we as a result not move forward and stay at home forever? The answer is no.
“I have been of the strong belief before now that our schools should re-open and all business must re-open. The students, what are they doing at home? They interact with each other and so do we all” he added.
Adedoyin went on to say that the future of the young ones should not be mortgaged under any onus as they are the ones to carry the on the baton of development in the country forward and that the uncertainty they had surrendered the conduct of WAEC, JSCE and Common Entrance Examination before now, must not be allowed to repeat itself.
“The ball is in our court. We must not play politics with the education of our children. Now, the children in the terminal classes are being taken care of”.
The Oyo State chairman of the NUT advised all students and Nigerians at large to report to the appropriate health authorities if they feel any of the symptoms rolled out by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) “as only those who are advice can hope to achieve anything in life. COVID19 is real. So, as much as possible everyone should keep safe by taken the appropriate necessary precautions. The virus is not a death sentence. However, we all must avoid the hassles that goes with it” he said.
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