The association’s spokesperson, Mrs Abike Williams, while addressing journalists at the premises of Oyo State Minisity of Health Chest Hospital, Jericho, Ibadan, on Tuesday, declared the unflinching support of members of the association to the Oyo State government and pleaded for the unbanning of sale of food in public schools in the state by the government.
She stated that members of the association, numbering about 25,000, were mostly widows who lived and trained their children with the proceeds made from selling food in the government-owned schools.
Mrs Williams declared that a courtesy call had been made to both the state governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, and the Commissioner for Education, Dr Nureni Adeniran, on the purported food poisoning rumour, emphasising that the association had internal mechanism to check any member behaving in inappropriate manner.
The association’s general secretary, Mrs Felicia Akinsipe, reiterated that food vendors had been in operation in government schools since 1955 without any case of food poison recorded at no time.
Mrs Akinsipe declared, “members of our association are law-abiding people, who will never do anything against the government. We sell food in government schools to children attending government-owned schools and our children. So, we plead that they allow us to continue with our business.”
Earlier, Reverend Olayinka Odubela , a drink manufacturer, solicited lifting of government’s order prohibiting sale of food in public schools because it would lead to increased unemployment and family instability in the state.
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