The Lagos State government has resolved to register all the students of a low cost school who were shown in a viral video observing assembly and singing National Anthem inside stagnant dirty water at Oko-Agbon in Makoko area of Lagos recently.
They will be registered into six public primary schools in the area at this academic term.
Head of Public Affairs unit of the state Ministry of Education, Mr Ganiu Lawal, made this known in a statement on Wednesday night.
He listed the six schools as Adekunle Anglican Primary School, Makoko Primary School, Ayetoro African Church Primary School, Fazil Omar Primary School, Ahmadiya Primary School and Talimu Islamiya Primary School.
He said the development was part of the short-term measures to ensure these children and others like them in the community have access to quality education.
He said government officials from the ministry, including the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo; the state universal basic education board and other related government agencies, as well as the House of Assembly members had visited the site of the school and the orphanage known as Mawumadoka Children Foundation for a fact-finding mission.
He also said the state House of Assembly at a time invited the officials from the so-called low cost school and other stakeholders including the Ministry of Education and its agencies, still on the issue.
He added that the government officials had also heard from the officials of the church reported to have shot the video to attract sympathy to raise money to rebuild the now demolished structure which served as school and that now, the state government has decided to put those children in public schools.
While noting that there are six public schools in the area, he said some parents prefer to enroll their children in the orphanage cum lesson class while their population continued to grow.
He said the ministry, in collaboration with the Office of Civic Engagement, would continue to encourage residents of not only that Makoko area but elswhere across the state to access quality education in public schools as provided according to him, by the state government.
He said the ministry had particularly noted that the concerned Makoko orphanage/school had really thrown up once again the challenge posed by unregistered low cost schools in some parts of the state.
He, however, said government through inter-agency collaboration would continue to ease the process of school approval and standardisation.
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