Oyo Govt to Remove Shops Built into Public Schools’ Fences, Gives a Week Ultimatum
Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, is prepared to remove all shops built into public schools’ fences in the state.
The governor disclosed this on Tuesday after inspecting some public schools in Ibadan, the state capital.
Governor Makinde decried the worrisome state in which the learning environments are found and, therefore gave shop owners one-week ultimatum to remove their shops.
He expressed that his administration is determined to stop all trading activities around the premises of the schools by making the environment more conducive for learning adding that the new development would bring sanity to the school environment ahead of students’ resumption.
He said: “The entrance is almost blocked by people who have their shops very close to the entrance of the school, which is not conducive for learning. So, we have gone round and what we are saying is that if you have anything attached to the fence of a school, you must remove it.
“We are going to give them about a week to remove those things. They should clear them so that when our children come back to school, we will know they are coming into an environment conducive to learning.
The governor equally monitored the waste management situation across the state capital, noting that the government would come up with a strategic plan to improve the environment, everyone would be proud of.
“Also, we have taken the opportunity to look at the situation with solid waste management. You can see most medians have become dumpsites but this has to stop.
“Where we have single carriage roads, you don’t see people dump their waste by the roadside. How come they have made the medians the dumpster?
“So, we will, again, go back to the drawing board because something is not working with the architecture that we have in place.
“We are working to look into what has to be done next to have the kind of environment that we really want to be proud of.”
The governor was in company of the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade; his counterpart in the Ministry of Environment, Mr. Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola; and the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Oyo State, Barr. Abiodun Aikomo.
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