Ebola: Governor Mimiko Reacts To Resumption Date

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has advised schools proprietors and parents to stop agitating for early resumption of schools across the country.

This was announced at the weekend in Akure, the state capital by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, at the public presentation/investiture ceremony of Mr. Bode Akinwumi as the 28th President of the Akure/Owena Lions Clubs for 2014-2015 Lions year, This Day reports.

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He said the governor urged parents and proprietors to allow the Federal Government exploit all necessary measures in ensuring that the country is free from the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

Adeyanju further revealed that the state government has already put in place measures to contain the spread of the disease in the state. He urged residents to always abide by instruction from medical practitioners in order to avoid contracting the deadly disease.

The commissioner, who expressed optimism that Ebola will be fully contained, said there had been other deadly diseases that have come and gone in the past, and advised that all the was needed is for people to follow the instructions about the disease. He said residents should call if there is any suspicious case of Ebola, and pleaded to residents to always ask questions.

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“If our students must go back to school, they should not go back in trouble, we should not forget that only one case in Lagos brought problem to the whole country, so there is need for us to be in a hurry about our children’s resumption date” he said.

Following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria on July 20, 2014, the federal government in its effort to curb the disease from further spreading across the country, directed that school resumption across the country should be postponed.

The decision reportedly sparked a lot of reactions from schools proprietors and parents. On the September 13, 2014, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State cleared the air on theanticipated resumption date for public and private schools as directed by the Federal Government.

It would be recalled that Federal Government had earlier announced that primary and secondary schools across the country should resume academic activities on 22 September,2014

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Fashola Wants NGF Revived

Governor, Babatunde Fashola, of Lagos State on Wednesday tasked the 36 states governors to work towards reviving the Nigeria Governors’ Forum before leaving office in 2015.

The Nation reports that the governor made the call during a dialogue session organised by the Kukah Centre for Faith and Leadership Research.

He described as embarrassing that the Forum which they inherited from their predecessors was going into extinction in their era, noting that if allowed to happen, the next set of governors may not have a Governors’ Forum.

Fashola, who explained that government and elected officials must acknowledged that the problems of Nigeria revolve around the people of the country, said nothing was wrong with the country but the in the value system of the people.

“If we agree that the problems revolve around people, then the difference will lie in the method. The Presidential system we use is the American system. As a matter of national value, the Americans agree that anybody who earns income must pay tax” he said. “The essential quality for institutions to do well is people. When institutions do well, it is because good people have done the right thing and when they do badly, it is because bad people have been allowed to take charge.”

According to him, there is nothing mysterious about institutions since what drive institutions are good men and women. He said such people cannot be discovered until there is a convergence of ideas and values.  The governor urged his counterpart to be driven by a nationalistic value system because if the nation should fall, there would not be any party to save.

Fashola stressed that you can only have a united actions when there are shared values, adding that it is only when the values systems are different that you can sit down in a governor’s forum and have an election where some persons will say a smaller number is higher than the other number.

He revealed that though he was embarrassed with the development, especially as they were all in the same club where the incident occurred, he expressed optimism that before they leave office, the last thing they can do is to give back to those who will succeed them what they inherited from their predecessors.

It would be recalled that on June 6, 2014, the Nigerian governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) held their fourth retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

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