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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Abiodun Ogunyemi, has faulted the move to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Prof. Ogunyemi the Federal Government has not put in place safety measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in schools.
Ogunyemi who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, noted that every strata of government has to be carried along in the move to reopen the learning centres.
“The ministry (Federal), state ministries, have responsibilities; state education boards have responsibilities, local education boards have responsibilities; the thing has to trickle down,” he said.
“You don’t put something on nothing, and that is what we have been saying. The basis for reopening schools is not there yet. The government must go back to the drawing board. They have to put what they have to put in place before they open our schools.”
The ASUU leader claimed that “nobody is talking about tertiary institutions,” but admitted that “one way or the other, we will come to talk about it.”
He also lamented congestion in classes at all levels in public schools and wondered how social distancing will be observed.
