Senate
President Bukola Saraki has vowed to ensure those respondible for the
deaths of three students of Queen’s College, Lagos, to be prosecuted.
The school suffered an outbreak of Diarrhoea in February. Three students
of the school died of the disease while many others were hospitalized.
Some
of the students claim that a cat died in their water tanker and they
were forced to still use the water to bath despite complains that the
water was seriously smelling.
Lagos state
government ordered the closure of the school but has now given a nod for
it to be reopened tomorrow Saturday April 29th.
In a
statement released by his special assistant on print media, Chuks
Okocha, Saraki said an investigation would be conducted and those found
guilty would be prosecuted.
“I will
direct that when this matter comes to the floor as a motion. We will
debate and make resolutions. Definitely, there must be an investigation.
In every civilised society, it is very shameful that young girls could
lose their lives in this kind of situation. The best we can do is to
make sure that this kind of incident never happens again. Management
must explain how the situation got to this level and anybody who is
found responsible, necessarily, they must be prosecuted. I think this
would have been easily avoided and we can’t continue to live in a
society like this, I want to assure you that we will look into this. The
ministry of education, must tell us what they have been doing. We are
sure that there has been release of funds, what have they done with it?
We need to sit down and ask ourselves what we really need to do to fix
education in this country. We cannot continue to watch things get this
bad. Any laws we need to amend or any law we need to introduce, we need
to address that,” he said
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