Lagos Speaks On Involving Pupils In Fight Against Coronavirus

The Permanent Secretary/Tutor-General, Education District 1, Barrister Titilayo Solarin has underscored the importance of involving school pupils in the series of sensitization and awareness messages on the COVID19.

Speaking during a sensitization session on Coronavirus organised for stakeholders in Lagos State Education District 1, the Permanent Secretary said that the programme became necessary in view of the deadly disease which has assumed a pandemic status globally.

She stated that the need to increase public awareness among relevant stakeholders in the education sector cannot be over-emphasized, especially among teachers and students who cannot do without having direct contact with their colleagues on a daily basis.

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The exercise, according to her, is not only for the sensitization of stakeholders but also to train participants on the production of hand sanitisers in order to make the product more accessible to students and assist in keeping the disease at bay.

The Tutor-General expressed the belief that being able to teach the participants on how to use and produce sanitizers would help address the looming scarcity of the product as well as reduce the cost of the few available ones.

Solarin informed that all schools in District 1 now have basins, water, soap and sanitizers, saying that when students get to school, they must wash their hands and repeat same during and after the break session.

She added that students are a very viable vehicle for passing across information because they would not only make use of the information given but will also extend the information to others.