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COVID-19: Bayelsa charges teachers/ parents to take responsibility

As schools resume on Wednesday, Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has charged teachers, parents and students to take responsibility to avoid further spread of the coronavirus disease.
Inugurating a special committee monitoring committee on Tuesday in Yenagoa, the state capital, to ensure the safe reopening of schools across the state, the governor said that the trainers will go out with their guidelines and checklist to ensure that every teacher, student and parent take responsibility so as avoid the spread of the virus.
He continued: “It is not a purely government affair. It is the responsibility of the teachers, parents and the government.
“We must take strong measures to check teachers-students’ transmission and vice versa,” Diri stressed.
The governor noted that the teachers have become “front liners”, in the fight against COVID-19, just as the health workers have been since the advent of the virus in the country and urged them to discharge their responsibility wholeheartedly.
Diri said that to further ensure the safety of the returning students and teachers, the state government has provided 10,000 face masks, scanners and other hygiene related materials like soap, water for all the secondary schools in the state, including private schools.
“This ‘Prosperity Administration’ is committed to providing quality education, to build very sound and robust human resources for the overall good of Bayelsa State,” he maintained.
The mandate of the committee he said was to train key stakeholders in the school system and other relevant sectors on COVID-19 protocols who will then ensure that the training runs down to the rural areas in the eight local government areas of the state.
The committee will be chaired by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Government House, Dr. Peter Akpe with permanent secretaries, Ministry of Health, Education and Information, among others, including representatives of private schools in the state as members.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Iniodu Aboku noted the strides the state has been making towards containing the spread of COVID-19 in the state.

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