Sit–at-home: Anambra State Adopts Saturday as School day

Following the weekly sit-at-home on Mondays declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Anambra State government has chosen to use Saturdays as normal school days.

Mr. C Don Adinuba, Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, who spoke with News men about the new development, indicated that it was to safeguard the safety of students and teachers, as well as all stakeholders.

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He said: “We want our pupils to learn as much as possible in a safe environment. With the new measure we have taken, all the stakeholders are winners. These stakeholders are the pupils, teachers, school administrators, proprietors, parents, guardians and the host communities.

“With this, nobody loses anything for the time being. We hope that in the next few weeks, things will normalize. With the Saturday school, people who depend on sales in the schools to feed their families will still make up for the loss of Monday as they will still be providing services in the schools five days in a week”

According to the Commissioner, Anambra teachers have already acclimated to the new measure because they believe it is a worthwhile sacrifice to make in the benefit of the state’s educational advancement.