In the last few weeks, the media wave, both print and electronic, especially social media, have been awash with different kinds of stories or news about the tragic death of a wonderful angel and student of Chrisland School Opebi, Lagos, Whitney Adeniran. It was reported that she sadly passed away during the school’s Annual Inter-house Sport that took place at Agege stadium.
While the school maintains that she died of a natural death or unknown cause, the parents, and maybe by extension, the government hold the view that Whitney’s death was not natural but arose out of some human errors. In other words, it is the belief of the holders of the latter view that Whitney’s death was avoidable. It is true that to every coin, there are two sides but whichever side is the truthful side, only God the almighty and omnipotent can decide. May God forgive us all.
I humbly submit, with the utmost sense of responsibility, that it is sad and disheartening for anybody to lose a loving dog or pet not to talk of losing a child. However, if we look at the issue dispassionately and calmly, we will discover that the closure of schools for this type of occurrence is not the best solution. This is because apart from not being corrective enough, it has the tendency of causing more harm and danger to society than one can ever imagine.
According to Ferdous A. Jahan, Nicole Zviedrite, Hong Jiang Gao, Farique Ahmed and Amra Uzicanin in their research termed “Causes, Characteristics and Patterns of Prolonged Unplanned School Closures Prior to the Covid-19 Pandemic- United States, 2011-2019”, there is little information about the occurrence of Prolonged Unplanned School Closure termed except during pandemic.
Also, it is public knowledge that a lot of hazards and incidences of this nature do happen in government schools but they do not get to seal up the school. It is clear that government only wield the sledgehammer of lock-up or sealing when the school is a private school. Or can anybody tell us that nothing like this has ever happened in any government school? I doubt it so much.
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