Parents of pupils in private secondary schools in Ogun State on Sunday decried the mandatory payment of N25,000 by students for COVID-19 test.
Many of the parents, who took their demonstrations to the streets, faulted the decision of the government to ask them to pay N25,000 on each pupil before they could be allowed to resume.
The state government had said no boarding school pupil would be allowed to resume without a valid negative COVID-19 test certificate.
The government also asked the parents to take their wards to designated places for the test between Friday and Monday.
The dissatisfied parents on Sunday thronged the MTR 250 bed specialist hospital, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the designated place for the pupils in Abeokuta.
It was gathered that attempts by the parents to get their children tested for free failed as they were asked to pay N25,000 on each child.
When our correspondent visited the venue, it was observed that many parents were locked out of the facility.
The Punch reports that some of the parents who spoke lamented that the payment of N25,000 for COVID-19 test shows the government cared less about its citizens.
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They complained that the economic reality in the country has made it difficult to pay such an amount of money.
Attempts to get the Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Primary and Secondary Education, Ronke Soyombo, failed as she did not pick calls to her line and did not reply to the messages sent to her mobile.
The Punch
