On Saturday, Governor Abiola Ajimobi, through the state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Toye Arulogun, directed that the schools should reopen on Monday, except 17 others whose pupils were involved in the demonstration against the proposed private partners’ involvement in the management of some public secondary schools in the state.
When Punch visited some public secondary schools in Ibadan on Monday, it observed that although a few pupils turned up at the schools, there were no teachers in the classrooms.
However, some parents refused to allow their children to go to school until labour leaders in the state and the state government settled their differences.
Some of them preferred to observe the situation on Monday before taking a decision to send their children back to school.
In some schools visited in Odo-Ona, Apata, Owode and Molete axis, some teachers were seen hanging around their schools but they did not stay long. The pupils also left before 11.30am.
One of the teachers who spoke on condition of anonymity said she came to the school to see if government would force them to sign an attendance register.
She said, “I am aware that labour leaders had directed that we stay at home. I respect that but I just came to study the situation and see if there would be any attendance register. Before now, such idea was proposed at the state secretariat to know workers who sympathise with labour against the government directive.”
Meanwhile, the state Deputy Governor, Moses Alake, who represented Ajimobi during the inauguration of a 31-member Education Reform Initiative Committee in Ibadan on Monday, said he was optimistic that the disagreement between labour and government would be resolved in a matter of days.
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