rincipals, administrative officers and directors of the Lagos State Education District II took a break from educational administration to walk for fitness last Tuesday.
They walked and danced from the District headquarters within the Maryland Schools’ complex through Mende and Mobolaji Bank Anthony back to Maryland.
The exercise was led by the Tutor-General permanent Secretary of the district, Mrs Titilayo Solarin, who said she organised the walk for the first time in the history of the district to improve the health of the principals and directors and enhance their productivity.
“We realised that people have not been exercising recently and as a result there is so much illness; officers are not performing well. I think that a healthy body should be able to perform well and that’s why we are organising this for the first time in this district.
“We also organised free health checks for our officers and principals. We have done it before for teachers and other staff and we still hope to organise such a thing again,” she said.
She promised to make it a monthly exercise. After the walk, she thanked the participants drawn from Kosofe, Somolu and Ikorodu zones as well as the officers from the district headquarters for taking their time off work to walk for health.
Mrs Ramota Dairo, Director, Co-curricular Services, was particularly happy about the initiative because it falls within her area of specialisation, Physical and Health Education. She said the walk would be followed by aerobics in future.
“We want to encourage our teachers and workers that at their own free time they should continue to do this. Apart from this we are planning aerobics programmes for our workers and that one is only dance,” she said.
Principal of Community Senior Secondary School, Bayeku, Ikorodu, Mrs Flora Kara, said the programme served not only to recharge their batteries but to network with colleagues they had not seen for long.
“This initiative is a very good one because most times we don’t have time to exercise. But with this, compulsorily we have done it and we enjoyed it as a group. We danced, we walked and we are looking healthy. We benefited not only regarding fitness but networking. For example some of us have not seen for a long period of time. I am from Ikorodu; some are from Somolu; some are from Kosofe. It has brought us together to interact with one another,” she said.
