Bayelsa NUT Rejects Sept 29 Schools’ Resumption Date

The leadership of Nigeria
Union of Teachers (NUT), Bayelsa Chapter, has kicked against the September 29 schools’ resumption date in Bayelsa.
Speaking to The Tide  in Port Harcourt on Wednesday via mobile phone, the state chairman of the union, Comrade Ogola Brandla, said the state government must train and sensitise members of the union on prevention of the dreaded virus before resumption of schools in the state.
Brandla said members of the union will not resume until the conditions to prevent the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) were met by the Bayelsa State government.
He said NUT members in the state are anxiously waiting to participate in government  organized training programme designed to equip members of the union with a view to acquiring adequate knowledge on prevention of the spread of the deadly disease.
The union’s boss said the training of teachers in the state was the only way to protect schools from the spread of the virus stressing that no school in the state would be opened on the announced date until the training was done.
The NUT’s chairman said the decision for schools to remain shut in Bayelsa was taken because of the union’s concern for the growth of the state’s education sector.
He explained that members of the union are major stakeholders in the growth of the education sector in any given state.
Meanwhile, the federal government has announced that the country is free from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) for schools to resume throughout the country.

Philip Okparaji