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| Ondo State Governor, Dr Mimiko (Photo source: ThisDay) |
The Ondo State Government at the
weekend cautioned parents and proprietors of schools against the hasty opening
of schools for the next academic session, urging them to allow the government
do all that is necessary to ensure that the country is free from the dreaded
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), ThisDay reports.
The state Commissioner for Health,
Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, gave the advice in Akure, Ondo State capital, while speaking
at the public presentation/investiture ceremony of Mr. Bode Akinwumi as the
28th President of the Akure/Owena Lions Clubs for 2014-2015 Lions year.
Adeyanju, who said the state government
had put in place necessary measures to curtail the spread of the disease to the
state, advised the people of the state to always obey instruction from the
health practitioners in order to avert the outbreak of the disease in the
state.
According to him, “Ebola will come
and go, there had been some diseases like that that have come and gone in the
past, what we need to do is to just obey the instructions about the disease. If
there is any suspicious case, we implore our people to call, we are also
expecting them to always ask questions. “
He said: “If our students must go
back to school, they should not go back in trouble, we should not forget that
only one case in Lagos brought problem to the whole country, so there is need
for us to be in a hurry about our children’s resumption date.”
Speaking as the Chairman of the
occasion, an industrialist, Mr. Emmanuel Adewunmi, faulted a two-term tenure
system that allows local government chairman, governor or president to
recontest for the same position for the second term in office.
Adewunmi, who is the Managing
Director of Denki Wire and Cables Company Limited, Akure, said the single
tenure being practiced by the Lions Club had always been putting any person
that is elected as president or District Governor, on his/her toes and which
always make them to be up and doing.
The industrialist therefore advised
Nigerian politicians to imbibe the Lions International objective of how to
promote the principle of good government and good citizenship.
Adewunmi said if politicians could
embrace Lions’ club principle, they would also know how to take an active
interest in the civic, culture, social and moral welfare of the community,
state and the nation.
He said: “Our politics in Nigeria
today could have been more refined and better practiced if our politicians have
come to Lions Club School to acquire knowledge on how to do things.”
In the Lions Club, there is no
provision for any person to remain in office for more than one term of one year
meaning that one from the day of investiture must start work because there
is no time for one to make correction if one does not perform within one term.
He said Nigeria is too big and the
population is too much for anybody to want to stay in office for more than four
years, lamenting that if allowed some may even want to go for third term.
He said the Lions International
Purpose/Objective contains eight lessons which if imbibed by leaders in Nigeria
can take the nation to the promised land,
“Our nation will continue to prosper
when our leaders are indoctrinated in Lions International purpose and objective
or we start to have Lions members in places of government be it national, state
and local government level,” he said.
In his acceptance speech, the new President,
Bode Akinwumi enjoined members of the club to always endeavour to use their
time and resources for the development of their communities.
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