From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The Kogi State Government has expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance by schools on resumption of academic activities across the state.
The Kogi State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones gave the commendation while speaking to journalists shortly after monitoring some schools in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
He told journalists that they were in the schools to confirmed the level of compliance based on the directive issued last week that schools in Kogi state must resume work with effective from today( Monday).
According to him, “so far, we are very pleased with compliance. Usually the first day of resumption won’t attract so many students, but what we have seen here and the feelers we are getting across the state through my monitoring teams is very impressive and encouraging”.
He reaffirmed government position that Kogi State is free from Covid-19 pandemic.
The Commissioner averred further that, it is on record that no student had been reported to contact corona virus or had lost their lives when schools resumed some months back in the state.
He maintained that the ministry will ensure that schools observe the safety protocols of Covid-19 set aside by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
” We have done this before, even when the whole country was locked down for months. We were able to resume and our schools resume and there was no panic any where in the state. It is on record that no student has died of corona virus on account of corona virus. I don’t have any such report.
” I believe that the situation is even milder because, if it were to worst, the presidential task force on covid-19 will not direct States across the federation to open School. If the situation were to be that terrible, the directive would have been otherwise. So far, so go, we are satisfies with what we have seen so far” he stated.
Some of the schools visited by the commissioner in Lokoja includes Bishop Delisle College, Crowder Memorial College, St Luke Adankolo, UBE Junior Secondary School Adankolo, St Clement Minor Seminary, Government Day Secondary School School, Adankolo, Muslim community Secondary School.
Speaking in a separate interviews, the Principals of Bishop Delisle College, Lokoja, Mrs Mary Bola Boro and the Principal, Crowder Memorial College, Mabel Ogunmola were both impressed witt the turn out of students in their first day in School.
