Why Schools Must Resume Sept 22 – President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has given
reasons why nursery, primary and secondary
schools should resume on September 22,
while also begging the Nigeria Union of
Teachers (NUT) not to embark on strike over
the resumption date.
Addressing the State House correspondents at
the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday,
September 16, Jonathan said the country had
successfully managed the outbreak of Ebola
and there is presently no case to keep school
children at home unnecessarily, Punch reports.
The president explained that the continued
stay of school children at home would send
the wrong signals to the international
community about the Ebola situation in
Nigeria.

Jonathan said: “Our athletes were segregated
in China, they had to returned to the country.
A place like China asked Ministers of the
Federal Republic to show prove of Ebola free
certificate, very discouraging. And what people
don’t know is that as long as you close your
institutions because of Ebola, the ambassadors
that are here with us and the high
commissioners send what you call dispatches
to their home states about what is happening
in our country monthly.
“As long as we Nigerians close all our public
institutions because of Ebola, the dispatch that
goes to the whole world is that Ebola is a
problem in Nigeria. And as long as we declare
that Ebola is a problem in Nigeria, any Nigerian
that travels out will be treated as someone
that has Ebola.
“We have been able to manage Ebola and the
whole world is happy with us and we must tell
the whole world that we have managed Ebola
and no Nigerian should be segregated because
of Ebola. If we still have Ebola definitely we
will not open any of our institutions but we
don’t have Ebola .”

He said rather than embark on strike, the NUT
should commend government on its handling
of the outbreak of the Ebola disease.
President Jonathan gave the assurance that
measures had been put in place to avert the
importation of the disease into the country as
in the case of the late Patrick Sawyer (the
index case) who brought from Liberia into
Nigeria.
It would be recalled that the Federal
government’s directive for nursery, primary and
secondary schools to resume on September 22,
2014 had sparked controversy in various
quarters.
Nigerian doctors were opposed to the
resumption date , saying all schools should not
resume until all those who are under
surveillance for the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
in the country had been certified free.
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) even
directed its members to ignore the September
22, resumption date as directed by the Federal
government.

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