The News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) reports that pupils in Osun state on June 6 went on rampage in protest
against the state government’s proposed public/private participatory management
of schools.
Gov Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo
State has requested for a letter of apology from schools whose pupils took part
in a protest against government’s proposed education initiative before
re-opening the schools.
Alhaji Abiodun Jimoh, the
Chairman, National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria(NAPTAN), Oyo State
Chapter, said this in Ibadan on Thursday after a meeting with the governor.
The pupils had protested
following allegations that the state government had sold their schools.
NAN, however, reports that
government had several times dismissed the allegations, saying the initiative
was participatory and aimed at boosting the education sector.
Jimoh told newsmen that the
association had visited the governor to appeal to him to re-open the schools
which were shut down by the state government over the incident.
The NAPTAN chairman said
that the governor had expressed displeasure over the involvement of pupils in
the protest.
He said that Ajimobi had
demanded that he would re-open the schools only if the affected institutions
submitted letters of apology to government over the unruly behaviour of their
pupils.
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