A proposal detailing plans to reopen schools throughout Nigeria has been submitted to the National Assembly by the Federal Ministry of Education.
This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, on Tuesday during his appearance at the red chamber presenting the proposal before the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education.
He stated, “Children are asymptomatic carriers. Nobody can prove whether they can infect each others. Not even the health experts. Everything we know about it is what we read. There is nothing we discovered on our own.
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“In the document, we have provided, we have suggested how we can move our education sector forward in this pandemic period.
“We don’t want to make it (proposal) known at this period so that some people will not take our proposal for the guidelines for schools reopening.
“The documents were presented to you so that you can criticise and make inputs as major stakeholders”
Nwajiuba queried the plans of the Oyo State Government to reopen schools when "it has just started recording an increase in cases of coronavirus infection?"
He asked, “Why is Oyo State talking of reopening schools when it has just started recording an increase in cases of coronavirus infection?"
Adding that, “Just beside Oyo is Ogun State which was part of the three states under the FG’s lockdown since April and it’s not talking about schools reopening.
“As we speak, Kogi and Cross River states are not on the same page with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on the issue of testing while all their neighbouring states are conducting tests.”
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