School Closure: Ikpea Hails Okpebholo’s Proactive Move to Protect Students
The senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District of Edo State in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Joseph Ikpea, has commended Governor Monday Okpebholo for the proactive steps he took by closing down some secondary schools in the state following a red alert raised by the Department of State Services (DSS) on the plan by bandits to attack some schools in the state.
Senator Ikpea said that by closing some of the schools prone to the threat as warned by the DSS, Governor Okpebholo had shown uncommon leadership and full grasp of the elementary principle of governance which places a premium over the wellbeing of the people.
The senator, in a statement he endorsed in Benin, the Edo State capital, said that with the situation of security in the nation, it was just ideal that the governor did not treat the security red alert raised by the top security agency with kid gloves.
“I want to commend His Excellency, Senator Monday Okpebholo, the Executive Governor of our dear state, Edo State, for the prompt decision he took yesterday by closing down three different secondary schools in the Akoko Edo Area of the state following the security alert raised by the Department of State Services that some undesirable elements in our society were planning to attack some schools in Edo North Senatorial District with a view to kidnapping our children.
