Lagos State Ministry Of Education Query Principal Who Sent Student Out Of School over Peter Obi sticker
The Lagos State Ministry of Education has summoned the principal of Odmora Secondary School, Epee, for sending home a secondary school student, Marvelous Ballinada, for having a bag with a sticker of Labor Party presidential candidate Peter Obi. bottom. to school.
A distraught mother had gone online to focus her attention on punishing her 10-year-old daughter.
Ballinaada appealed to Nigerians to come and help her family, saying Marvelous had no political inclinations or affiliation and was only a minor.
She lamented: “This is to inform you all, that my daughter, Marvelous Barinaadaa, was exited from Odomola Secondary School today 14th March 2023. by the School Principal, just because my daughter used Peter Obi’s poster paper to wrap her notebook for school. And this girl is just ten years old.
”She didn’t know anything about politics, but she was sent away from school without informing the parents because they say we support Peter Obi and Labour Party. Please, Is this act by the School Principal good? See what the school principal wrote in that letter. And after we will say we are one Nigeria.”
A JSS2 student was given an expulsion notice to leave school for violating instructions allegedly given to public schools by the Lagos state government.
According to a photo of the resignation letter, the principal of Odomora Middle School told Marvelous to go home and stand up for Obi, saying it was “against the wishes of Lagos residents.”
Mr. Pidom, an investigative journalist, and Mr. Apagun Saka Shola, president of the Odomora Secondary School Students’ Association OSSOSA, confirmed that the Lagos State Ministry of Education had intervened in the matter.
The principal was said to have been invited to the Araussa State Secretariat to answer questions.
However, Shola said he was sent home on charges that Marvelous allegedly harassed and distracted him by distributing posters of Obi throughout the classroom.
He pointed out that the principal’s move is to reduce the annoyance caused by students sharing posters with other students.
The OSSOSA president said: “I have been able to reach the principal. The issue circulating is far from the truth. There is a directive to stop all forms of campaign in the classroom. As some political parties use the students to campaign in class.
“The principal did not expel or suspend the student. She sent her home for causing havoc and disturbance in the class during recess by chatting and sharing LP posters to her mates.”
” Again, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education is on the issue,” Shola added.
