Compliance With Covid-19 Protocols Excites Task Force As Schools Resume In Rivers

The Rivers State Government Task Force for the Cmpliance of COVID-19 Protocols in Schools, Monday, expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance by some schools.
The task force visited some public and private schools in Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt local government areas.
The schools visited include, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni; Jephthah Comprehensive Secondary School, East-West Road; Government Girls Secondary School, Rumuokwuta; and Community Secondary School, Rumuepirikom.
Others are Government Comprehensive Secondary, Borokiri; Enitonna High School, Borokiri; Methodist Girls High School, Harbour Road; and Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt.
At the various schools, members of the task force were conducted round by the principals and shown facilities put in place for the observance of COVID-19 protocols.
Addressing journalists at the end of the monitoring exercise, the Chairman of the task force, who is also the Administrator of Greater Port Harcourt, Amb Desmond Akawor said the monitoring was to ensure that principals and proprietors of schools implement the COVID-19 protocols as directed by the state government.
Akawor, who spoke through the Head of the State Civil Service, Barrister Rufus Godwins, expressed happiness with the management of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education for the installation of screening machines and wash hand bays at strategic positions in the school.
The chairman also lauded Jephthah Comprehensive Secondary for their compliance, especially the provision of an Isolation Centre to address cases of emergency.
He, however, observed some lapses in some of the schools visited, and urged them to take proactive steps by providing more infrared handheld thermometers and wash hand bays.
Akawor also enjoined them to provide hand sanitizers and maintain social distancing in the classrooms.
According to him, the adherence would promote effective teaching and learning, and ensure that the importance Governor Nyesom Wike attaches to the education and health of Rivers children was sustained.
Other members of the task force on the monitoring exercise include, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim; Commissioner for Education, Prof Kaniye Ebeku; Commissioner for Health, Prof Princewill Chike; Commissioner for Social Welfare, Mrs. Inime Aguma; and Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mrs. Ifeyinwa Nwankpa.