Lagos vows to sanction schools flouting government’s closure directive
Lagos State government has warned private school owners against violating government’s closure directive.
The director-general, State Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, in a statement on Monday, said that any school caught flouting the directive on closure of schools would be sanctioned.
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According to the state Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), some private primary and secondary school owners are inviting students to school in spite of government’s directives to close schools. It therefore warned owners and administrators of such schools to desist from reopening under whatever guise.
Seriki-Ayeni said the OEQA monitoring and investigation team would embark on compliance monitoring exercises across the state in order to ensure schools adhere strictly to the safety directives issued by the government to combat the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
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