According to reports reaching Oyogist.com, the House of Representatives has disagreed with the Federal Government decision over schools resumption on Monday over COVID-19 Fears.
Chairman of the House Committee on Basic Education and Services, Prof Julius Ihonvbere, disclosed that the Government did not contact the relevant committee in the National Assembly to fix the resumption date.
He made this known in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Saturday.
“They did not consult us; at least in my committee, nobody from the ministry spoke to me. I have been in Abuja. And I am not sure that they spoke to any of my members. They just don’t see us as part of the critical stakeholders,” he said.
Ihonvbere made this in a statement he issued in Abuja on Saturday, on behalf of his committee, opposed the Monday resumption date.
The statement was titled “School resumption: Are we truly prepared?”It read, “The Committee on Basic Education and Services, House of Representatives, has received with concern the decision of the Federal Government to reopen schools on January 18, 2021.
“We are particularly concerned that when the infection rates hovered around 500 and under, schools were closed; but now that it hovers well above 1,000 infections daily, schools are being reopened. Why are we rushing to reopen schools without adequate verifiable and sustainable arrangements to protect and secure our children?”
