Safety in schools should be a priority

As ‘Back to school’ fever grips the whole nation when the 2022 educational calendar gets underway, safety of the various stakeholders who take part in the school environment should be a cause for concern. The delays to the first term initially set for January 10 before postponement due to rising cases of Covid-19 as government put it, might mean that administrators could have utilized on the available time to adequately prepare for the opening of schools and thus safety must be guaranteed in schools.
The previous scenario witnessed upon resumption of lessons after long periods of absence from schools that culminated in high cases of the pandemic in schools should be a thing of the past, hence stakeholders should have learnt something while at the same time forgotten nothing.
The state of preparedness of schools to entail relevant safety measures being put in place for learners to learn in a risk-free environment that include presence of Covid-19 combating measures like hands washing zones incorporated.
Government as a responsible authority should therefore ensure that national and international Covid-19 rules and regulations are strictly adhered to so as to protect the young, innocent souls if they are to live up to their billing of ensuring safety.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and parents as well should join hands to ensure safety of the travelling parties especially on the roads to ensure precious lives are not lost to road carnage either out of negligence or ‘silly’ human errors which have become prevalent on the country’s major roads.
This demands the policing authority to ensure unauthorized transporters are kept off the roads so as to keep the occurrence of accidents under check. Also there is need to ensure conformity and adherence to set traffic and road rules in the fight against road carnage.
What this means is that there is need to make sure that offenders are brought to book and corrupt tendencies as ‘a ghost’ on the roads should cease to exist or just sink into oblivion while ensuring safety. As such ethical practices and sincerity should be on the fore to arrest the marauding fire that has haunted policing on our roads.