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‘No Social Gathering For 2020 Children’s Day’ -Primary, JSS Students React
Nigeria students, especially those ones between the age of 7 and 12 have acknowledged negatively this year’s children’s day as it will be celebrated at home.
Some of the children who spoke with our reporter yesterday, 26 May 2020, said it would be unreasonable and unfair for them to celebrate the children’s day at home while the market women are in market selling and buying unconsciously.
A student of Gbara Junior Secondary School, Fawaz Opemipo, said that the social distancing rule was for their own good but he felt that the federal government has failed by opening the business ventures before schools.
“Are the traders not contagious as we children?” He said, “We are not happy at all the way the COVID-19 is treated here in Nigeria.”
A student of Ilasan Junior Secondary School, Fathia Adegboyega, said if they could not have access to social gatherings that the state government should provide palliative care for all of them through their database at the Ministry of Education to show its fatherly care for all the younger students in the Lagos State.
“If we receive gifts from government despite our being at home, we will not feel the absence of the social gatherings that normally accompany the children’s day,” she said.
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A student at Victoria Island Junior Secondary School, Edet Monica, said she is not absolutely angry with the government of the state as she felt that the government is working according to the World Health Organization, adding that the problem at hand is a global one.
“Well, I just pray that the Indian boy that predicted the coming of the pandemic and its vanished moment should be accurate. If it works according to the boy, we will be resuming school by June,” she said.
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