Speaker, State of Osun House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Najeem Salaam has
deplored the unruly attitude displayed by students of St. Johns High school
Ile- Ife after failing to make the privileged list of free WAEC examination
list proposed by the state government.

Speaker Salaam in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Goke
Butikakuro asserted that the magnitude of violence displayed by the pupils
has shown that the school management and the security agents were
complacent, a situation that put the lives of staff and properties of
vandalized radio station located in Ile Ife in great danger.

Speaker Salaam stressed that the school management ought to have laid a
moral template for the pupils on the consequence of failing the mock
examination used to sift the unserious ones, and the wrath of law awaiting
the deviants among them, while the security agents around the affected
radio station ought to have called for reinforcement if overwhelmed; noting
that paying for WAEC of indigent students was a privilege not a right,
because, the examination body does not belong to the state.

He then called on the Commissioner of Police to smoke out the students
involved and their instigators, for the law to take its course, noting that
such miscreants who visited violence on radio station are not supposed to
be in conventional schools, but juvenile homes, saying that the state
parliament would soon deliberate on what would be the fate of the school
management concerned.

Speaker Salaam further said that the parliament has now been compelled to
come up with a legislation that would recommend severe punishment for
violent attitude in public schools.

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