Lagos Goes Tough On Roaming Students

The Lagos State Government has once again launched an offensive against late comers and students of public schools roaming around schools in the state.

The current offensive, P.M.NEWS gathered, was launched by the Office of the Special Adviser on Education to the Lagos State Governor, Dr. Elijah Adewale.

Staff of the office were seen in a white Nissan Urvan bus with registration number LA 05 B06 at the gate of the Government College, Agege on Monday monitoring late comers and asking students to move into the school.

As at 8.30 a.m., P.M.NEWS observed that the number of late comers assembled on the field of the school were more than the number of students who had settled in their classes for the first period after the morning assembly.

The officials also raided students in the surrounding shops and food joints around the school.

Reacting to the onslaught, some members of the public commended the officials for trying to bring back sanity to the schools.

“I commend the officials for driving the children back to the school. Some of them will hang around food joints and shops for a long time after the assembly and will refuse to go into the school. This is bad and I like what the government is doing now,” a parent who identified herself as Alhaja Biobaku told P.M.NEWS.

Teachers in the school also commended the government for the action, saying that it will go a long way in restoring discipline in public schools in the state.

An official of the Office of the Special Adviser on Education who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment on the issue, disclosed that the team would move to other public schools in the state to enforce the new directive.

Offensive against late comers and students roaming about was not new, it was launched during the administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu when Prof. Idowu Sobowale was the state’s Commissioner for Education.