Students and parents, already worried by armed herdsmen and inadequate government support, now have to worry about COVID-19.
travels to the borderland between Nigeria and Benin Republic in Ogun State where brutal attacks on farmers by marauding herdsmen have caused untold tragedies. He reports on how COVID-19 realities are worsening a situation already too painful to describe, but which is creating a new army of out of school children and young people.
As he spoke, Mr Ilo’s children were standing behind the door that leads from the inner house to the veranda. They looked on watching as their father sobbed emotionally. This sort of tragedy and the consequences on the education of the children of direct victims illustrate the vulnerability of children and young people on this Yoruba borderline between Nigeria and Benin Republic.In March 2020, a newspaper reported on reduction in school enrolment in Ogun border communities due to the persistent clashes between local farmers and wandering herders.
One of the farmers cultivating on the land, Sunday Oke, informed this reporter that up to 200 children could show up in dry seasons when the herders rarely pasture and it is felt to be safe. More shocking is the 2015-built school directly behind the palace of the Oba Eselu of Iseluland. The flamboyant pillar offering direction at the express-road between Ilaro and Oja Odan is luring to assume the pupils’ learning facility would be an impressive structure to behold. But, the Community Primary School in Ilupeju, Oja Odan, is yet another eyesore.
They are busy with the packing of planks detached from the top of the room for the block of junior classes – a plan for renovation by the state ministry of education.Joel claims that ‘nothing is wrong with the block of classrooms considered for renovation by the government.’What baffles the trio is that the structure considered for renovation by the Ogun state ministry of education is the newest in the school while the terrible senior secondary classes are left untouched.
“It is not even a matter of lie. We learn in the congregation of goats and sheep who come to pasture at times.” Originally owned and funded by the Islamic Association, the modest infrastructure was put in place by the parents- teachers association of the community. This explains why the Principal, Oghenechukwu Elvis, was first excited when that call came from the ministry of education.
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