The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa
Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022.
Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, announced
the closure when she visited the school on Wednesday.
A trailer had on Tuesday crushed some pupils of the school.
Some of the students died on the spot, while some others were injured.
The incident sparked outrage among the students and
inhabitants of the area.
Early this morning, students of the school protested the
death of their colleagues.
Also, some parents trooped to the school on Wednesday to
protest the death of the students.
They lamented that school was not immediately shut down
after the incident.
One of them said, “Why should the school reopen. The street
is still smelling of the flesh of dead bodies. The exam should be postponed and
students given automatic promotion is possible.”
While weeping, a mother lamented that “It is embarrassing
that the school reopened today. How will the government do such? What do they
want other mothers to be thinking of. My daughter is not in school and I have
come to tell them that she must not fail. If they are heartless, I am not.”
Meanwhile, the General Manager of Lagos State Traffic
Management Authority, Bolaji Oreagba, has disowned the allegation that
officials of the agency were involved in the unfortunate truck accident.
Oreagba said, “From the reports we received on the
incidence, the driver is believed to have lost control of the vehicle, probably
because of mechanical reasons. The police are investigating the matter; the
public should await their report.
“LASTMA does not have a traffic management duty post around
the accident scene. And all patrol personnel had reported back to base for the
daily parade as at the time the accident occurred leaving only those at their
traffic management posts,” Oreagba noted.
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