By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—PARENTS  and guardian have condemned the continued closure of public primary and secondary schools in Imo State, on account of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.
Some of them who spoke to Vanguard yesterday, expressed anger over the directive by the leadership of the state wing of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, for teachers to remain at home until government supplied personal protective equipment and other necessary tools to all schools.

Reacting to the development, Mrs. Tina Iwuala lamented that government always used any slightest opportunity to declare strike.
“NUT leaders in Imo State should tell the rest of us, the number of teachers and pupils that contacted Ebola since missionary and private schools resumed.

”I do not see why these teachers should remain endlessly at home. The leadership of NUT can conveniently afford ordering their members to remain at home because they are sure to get paid at the end of the month”.

She wondered why NUT failed to call for the closure of churches and markets in the state, stressing “teachers have been going to buy their needs from the markets, despite the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease”.

At Community Primary School, Akabo, Ikeduru local council area, a parent who simply identified himself as Mr. Njoku, fumed that public schools were still shut, “it is sad that the state government is yet to make a statement on the matter. It appears government is very happy with the ugly development”