Cholera epidemic threatens Oyo school

Unless appropriate authorities take urgent steps on the dehumanising and unhygienic situation at the L .A. Primary School, Bola, Shanga area in the Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State, lives of pupils and teachers are in grave danger.
Besides the fact that the school is inconducive for learning, a block of four classrooms have been turned to latrines where residents pass out excreta.
Whenever the school closes for the day, especially at weekends, some residents who are fond of defecating at any available open spaces would move into the school and litter the compound with faeces.
Consequently, the pupils are forced to clean the excreta and inhaling the offensive odour before they can settle down for class works.
Food vendors are also not helping the situation as the edibles are not being properly covered from swarm of house flies emerging from the classrooms turned toilets and hovering round the premises with attendant odour all over the place .
The school is vulnerable to marauders as it has many entrances. The fencing cannot guarantee any security either as it is not high enough.
Interestingly, the school is very close to family compounds of the immediate past Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Moroof Atilola, and the incumbent caretaker chairman of the Local Government, Soji Ojoawo, both of who are indigenes of the town.
It was learned that some pupils and teachers had fallen sick and were diagnosed of cholera at a private hospital due to emission of the pervading odour around the school premises.
Though the Headmaster of the school could not be reached when contacted thrice as she was said to be away on official assignments, some of the teachers who spoke on condition of anonymity hinted that several complaints had been lodged to appropriate quarters all to no avail.
“Honestly speaking, we are fed up with the situation because both our lives and the pupils are in grave danger due to terrible unhygienic situation. Those who come to the school and pass-out excreta are not known and the bad habits continued unabated. You can imagine a school as old as it is being neglected and left in this situation.’’
Efforts to contact the Secretary, Local Government Education Authority for his comment were unsuccessful, as he was said to be away on official assignments.