Some schoolgirls discovered smoking shisha in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, have been allowed to return to class after being suspended for weeks.
The girls, all of whom are pupils at Abeokuta Girls’ Grammar School in Onikolobo, Ogun State, were discovered inhaling shisha while filming themselves at one of their classmates’ houses.
The school’s management was alleged to have suspended the kids indefinitely when the video went viral.
The problem had been taken up by the Ogun Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, and measures were made to rehabilitate the schoolgirls.
The teens were alleged to have gone through a series of counseling sessions before being allowed to return to class on Tuesday.
During a visit to the school, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Abayomi Arigbagbu, stated that the kids will be subjected to manual labor as a kind of punishment in order to act as a deterrence to others.
Mrs. Abosede Ogunleye, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, advised students in the state to avoid actions that might jeopardize their future.
“The learners have been counseled and had to face some penalty, and I want to believe they have changed for the better,” Ogunleye said, pleading that the reinstated students not be stigmatized. So, instead of abusing, stigmatizing, or calling them names, I want to encourage you to advise them and be their friends.”
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