No Social Gathering for 2020 Children's Day-Students React

Nigerian school children have accepted negatively this year's children's day as there will be no social gathering for 2020.

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Children's day 2020 will be celebrated at home. Some of the school children said it would be awkward and unfair for them to celebrate the children's day at home while market women are in the market buying and selling neglecting the social distancing, Ekohot Blog reports.

Fawaz Opemipo, a student of Gbara Junior Secondary School, said the federal government has failed by opening the business ventures before schools.

"Are the traders not contagious as we children?" He said, "We are not happy at all the way the COVID-19 is treated here in Nigeria."

A student of Ilasan Junior Secondary School, Fathia Adegboyega added that if they could not have access to social gathering, the government should provide palliative care for all the school children in Lagos State through their database at the Ministry of Education so as to show its fatherly love care.

"If we receive gifts from government despite our being at home, we will not feel the absence of the social gatherings that normally accompany the children's day, she said.

Edet Monica, a student of Victoria Island Junior Secondary School who is in support of "No social Gathering for 2020 Children's Day" said the government is working according to the World Health Organization, stating that the problem at hand is very critical.

"Well, I just pray that the Indian boy that predicted the coming of the pandemic and its vanished moment should be accurate. If it works according to the boy, we will be resuming school by June," she said.