Lagos Assembly Calls For Declaration Of State of Emergency In Odo Obara Secondary School in Epe

 



The Lagos State Government has been urged to declare a state of emergency on Odo Obara Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in Epe area of the state.


Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Hon. Yinka Ogundimu made the declaration during a visit to the schools by the committee on Thursday to inspect the facilities they have put in place on the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 as the schools prepare to resume.


Hon. Ogundimu stated that the school did not have enough washing hand points at the gate, and that two points were not enough for at least 500 students to wash their hands.


 "We have seen the facilities in the school and we want to say that the state government should declare a state of emergency on the school and there is need for immediate reconstruction of the school. 


"The c!assrooms and the furniture there are bad and the conditions of the staff rooms are not good at all. 


"The state Ministry of Education should come to the school immediately and put things in order before the students resume," he said.












Principal of Odo Obara Junior High School, Mrs. Owolabi Mojirade had said that they had running water, wash hands, sanitizers and nose masks for the teachers and the students.


She said that the population of the school is 1,472, and that they had 32 teachers including the principal and three vice principals. 


"We have 16 classrooms with an average of 83 students per class. JSS 3 students would resume first to write exams and they are 320 in number, so we will have 30 students per class," she said.


The lawmaker said that the hall of Odo Obara Senior High School, Epe was deplorable and that it needed urgent rehabilitation.


The Committee was received in the school by the Principal, Mr. Sijibomi Michael Odumeru


Ogundimu condemned the maintenance culture of the management of the school, adding that the staff rooms were too dirty for anyone to occupy.


"Your preparation for resumption after COVID-19 Pandemic is zero. You don't have enough washing hand points.


"The students should be tested at the gate for temperature, they should wash their hands and be sanitized.


"The building of the school hall is still okay, but the roof is bad. There is need for perimeter fencing and the ministry of education needs to visit the school immediately," he said.

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