According to the NATIONS ONLINE, seventy-two
blind students of Bethesda Home for the Blind (BHB) may be on their way onto
the streets of Lagos, unless something is urgently done by the Lagos State government,
if threats by the Executive Secretary of Surulere Local Government, Mrs. Aduke
Hussein are anything to go by.
The
visually impaired inmates, who have found a safe haven in the Mrs Chioma Ohakwe
founded boarding school, would be losing their home, school, freedom, hope,
dreams and sanity if verbal and written threats coming from their host local
government are carried out.
The
home located at 31, Agege Motor Road, Moshalasi, Surulere, is the brainchild of
Ohakwe, a deeply religious social worker, who started the humanitarian home in
2005, to prepare these special students to face the world challenges adequately
through formal education-reading and writing- and vocational skill
acquisition such as music, hand craft, moral teaching and philosophy.
By
Monday, February 29, 2016, according to a quit notice served them, dated
December 14th 2015, and signed by Fasuyi K.A for Executive Secretary (ES),
Surulere LG, the students would be thrown to the streets, as they ceased to be
legal tenants of the LG.
According
to the BHB director, verbal warnings have come before the written one in
December. “Before we got this quit notice, they have sent people from the LG,
acting on the orders of the ES to talk us into vacating the only place we call
home. I did not think much of it, then the letter came and since then it’s been
constant harassment from the LG. One morning in January, a Police vehicle just
came to the home and their leader, an Assistant Superintended of Police (ASP)
said they were ordered to eject us. They went through the whole house and when
they saw the students, the ASP took pity on the children and even gave us
money, adding that he pitied our condition.”
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