The Governor Seriake Dickson-led administration in Bayelsa State has threatened to arrest and prosecute the victims of the 2012 floods, who have been occupying the Bishop Dimeari Grammar School, BDGS, buildings and have refused to comply with the government quit order.
Students of the school were relocated to the Okaka Model School in 2008 when Governor Timipre Sylva undertook to upgrade the facilities at the school.
It was gathered that the students only learnt about their return to their original school when they got to school on Monday morning.
Many of the students had no choice but to trek the almost three kilometre distance between the OMS and the BDGS as the free school bus scheme of the Dickson’s administration launched in 2012 was said to have been suspended.
Persons displaced by the 2012 floods, who were quartered by the government at the BDGS, it was gathered, had defied the government order to vacate the school. They had reportedly complained that they could not leave the place because they were allegedly denied the relief materials donated to them.
They alleged that intervention funds in excess of N10m and other donations from philanthropists received by the state government were diverted.
“Where do they want us to go? They diverted the flood intervention funds and now they are bent on evicting us from this place, let them go ahead but they should remember that there is God,” one of the IDPs, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
Source: Punch
Students of the school were relocated to the Okaka Model School in 2008 when Governor Timipre Sylva undertook to upgrade the facilities at the school.
It was gathered that the students only learnt about their return to their original school when they got to school on Monday morning.
Many of the students had no choice but to trek the almost three kilometre distance between the OMS and the BDGS as the free school bus scheme of the Dickson’s administration launched in 2012 was said to have been suspended.
Persons displaced by the 2012 floods, who were quartered by the government at the BDGS, it was gathered, had defied the government order to vacate the school. They had reportedly complained that they could not leave the place because they were allegedly denied the relief materials donated to them.
They alleged that intervention funds in excess of N10m and other donations from philanthropists received by the state government were diverted.
“Where do they want us to go? They diverted the flood intervention funds and now they are bent on evicting us from this place, let them go ahead but they should remember that there is God,” one of the IDPs, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
Source: Punch
