House of Representatives Committee on Education will on Monday meet with the officials of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Federal Ministry of Education on how to review the rescheduled resumption date for both private and public primary and secondary schools in the country.
Chairman, House Committee on Education, Aminu Usman, who led other members of the committee on oversight function activities to Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) Lagos, disclosed this.
According to Aminu, “since the NMA as a professional body had advised the Federal Government not to reopen schools until the Ebola disease issue is totally addressed, it would be wise for the committee to meet with the two organisations for proper action to be taken.
“The NMA is made of professionals. There are certain things they could have seen which we may not have seen. The NMA has advised government not to resume on September 22.
“We have invited the officials of both NMA and Federal Ministry of Education on Monday for a meeting for us to look into the issues of Ebola disease once again. We are going to look into the demands of the NMA and come out with decision in the best interest of the country.”
He said the NMA and FME have more information they need to share with the committee, stressing that the committee will react base on the information they are able to gather from them next week meeting.
Aminu said the House was committed to making education accessible to Nigeria and would do everything possible to protect the lives of Nigerian children.
It would be recalled that medical doctors had last Monday rejected the directive by the Federal Government to resume both private and public primary and secondary schools across the country on September 22 against the early agreed date of October 13.
According to NMA, schools should be shut till those under surveillance for Ebola disease are certified and fully recovered.
The doctors said they were not happy with Federal Government decision to resume school across the country, stating that the first thing government would have done was for it to wait for the recovering of those under surveillance before any statement on resumption.
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