Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political organisation has kicked against the Federal Government’s decision to leave schools on lockdown until further notice.
The group condemned the decision, demanding the dismissal of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu for planning to ground education for a year as the country battles coronavirus.
The Secretary-General of the association, Bashorun Sehinde Arogbofa, who spoke in Akure, argued for the reopening of schools. He urged the Federal Government to allow pupils to resume and find means of protecting them against COVID-19.
“Adamu Adamu should be sacked, he cannot bring our school system back to the stone age. They had about six months to plan for these children what did the Federal Government do?
“It means the two of them (Adamu and the Minister of State for Education) don’t know what they are doing, so they should go. I think the two ministers in the ministry should go. Why would one say the pupils should resume taking their paper in August and the other minister would come and reverse the order and that the school would be closed down for the whole year.
“It is reality that the COVID-19 is in the country but they should have envisaged what will happen and make necessary arrangements against it for pupils. Why should education be closed down for a whole year?
“It means the two of them don’t know what they are doing and this is why they have to leave the office,” he said.
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