COVID-19: Reps resist school resumption, advocate 3-month postponement
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| House stated authorities officers did now no longer seek advice from the applicable committees of the National Assembly |
The House of Representatives has faulted the Federal Government for giving faculties the go-beforehand to resume on Monday notwithstanding the growing instances of COVID-19.
The House stated authorities officers did now no longer seek advice from the applicable committees of the National Assembly, opposite to their declare that every one applicable stakeholders have been consulted earlier than arriving on the January 18, 2021, resumption date.
It, therefore, demanded postponement of resumption for 3 months, wherein important protection measures weren’t installed location and compliance with protocols low.
Chairman of the House Committee on Basic Education and Services, Prof Julius Ihonvbere, disclosed those in a phone interview with our correspondent on Saturday.
“They did now no longer seek advice from us; as a minimum in my committee, no person from the ministry spoke to me. I had been in Abuja. And I am now no longer positive that they spoke to any of my members. They simply don’t see us as a part of the important stakeholders,” he stated.
Ihonvbere, in a announcement he issued in Abuja on Saturday, on behalf of his committee, adverse the Monday resumption date.
The announcement become titled “School resumption: Are we virtually prepared?”
It read, “The Committee on Basic Education and Services, House of Representatives, has obtained with issue the choice of the Federal Government to reopen schools on January 18, 2021.
“We are specifically involved that after the contamination costs hovered round 500 and under, faculties have been closed; however now that it hovers nicely above 1,000 infections daily, faculties are being reopened. Why are we dashing to reopen schools with out ok verifiable and sustainable preparations to guard and stable our children?”