The Ondo State Government at the weekend cautioned parents and
proprietors of schools against the hasty opening of schools for the next
academic session, urging them to allow the government do all that is necessary
to ensure that the country is free from the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, gave the advice in Akure,
Ondo State capital, while speaking at the public presentation/investiture
ceremony of Mr. Bode Akinwumi as the 28th President of the Akure/Owena Lions
Clubs for 2014-2015 Lions year. Adeyanju, who said the state government
had put in place necessary measures to curtail the spread of the disease to the
state, advised the people of the state to always obey instruction from the
health practitioners in order to avert the outbreak of the disease in the
state. According to him, Ebola will come and go, there had been some diseases
like that that have come and gone in the past, what we need to do is to just
obey the instructions about the disease. If there is any suspicious case, we
implore our people to call, we are also expecting them to always ask questions.
He said: If our students must go back to school, they should not go back in
trouble, we should not forget that only one case in Lagos brought problem to
the whole country, so there is need for us to be in a hurry about our
children’s resumption date. Speaking as the Chairman of the occasion, an
industrialist, Mr. Emmanuel Adewunmi, faulted a two-term tenure system that
allows local government chairman, governor or president to recontest for the
same position for the second term in office.
Thisday Newspaper
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