I was surprised this morning when I walked past GRA Primary
school as I usually do when I go to work and I saw that the rumbustious kids
with the striped green uniforms were nowhere to be found. I almost walked past
when I noticed a document pasted on the school gate.
I was curious to know why the gate was shut and pupils not in
school. I moved over the gutters and got my eyes fixed on the not too
conspicuous document on the gate and to my utmost amazement; the school was
shut down by the Lagos State Government because of unpaid Land Use Charges.
In the words of Patrick Obahiagbon, “I was maniacally bewildered” at the preposteriosity of the state
government in shutting down a primary school just because some kind of money wasn’t paid. This wasn’t even a
private school, it’s a public school owned by the state government and they had
the effrontery to deny this indigent pupils right to education because of some flimsy
land use charges unpaid.
It goes to show that conspiracy theorist with the idea that this
present government is bent on de-educating the masses so that they can keep
holding sway over future say could be right after all.
Or what else could we call all these shenanigan acts of
maltreating and senselessly showing off power in the name of taxing the whole
state to stupor? LASU fee was recently reduced not because the government cared
about the students and their future but because suddenly reality call is
dawning on them. APC lost in Ekiti State and it wasn’t far from the fact that
teachers, students and civil servants were tired of the over-burdening of its
work force in the name of development.
I implore all government officials directly or indirectly involved
and in charge of GRA Primary School on Adekunle Fajuyi way Ikeja to quickly
revert this act of shutting down a primary school because of Land Use Charges. This
is really insensitive and makes no political, social or psychological sense. Those
kids should just be in school studying and by no means should they be shut out
of school except for security reasons.
Thank you!
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