This is not the best time for the students and staff of Bishop Phillips Academy, Ibadan, Oyo State, southwest Nigeria, as what supposed to be a thing of joy may likely turn to be an “agent of death” for them if urgent action is not taken by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government.

A couple of days ago, the management of the school took a delivery of a bus from the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs) which the Office claimed was for the constituency project of one of the leaders of the Federal House of Representatives in 2021.

Real Spotlight News reports that the 27-seater Youton bus was purchased at a cost of N43,222,289.72 in 2021 for onward delivery to the school, but with reasons best known to OSSAP-SDGs and the lawmaker in question, the bus was diverted for other purpose only for media report that exposed the scandal few days ago forced the bus to resurface, but not until it has become rickety.

The photos of the bus delivered on Monday to Bishop Phillips Academy speak volume that the vehicle was not a new one, but the photographs show that the bus was a used vehicle.

Surprisingly, this is the condition of most of the buses delivered to the beneficiary schools in Ondo, Oyo and Lagos states.

Students of Bishop Phillips Academy who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being target of intimidation said the people that supplied the bus are evils considering the condition of a bus meant to transport young students.

“I cannot call this dividend of democracy; it is dividend of death. I felt so sad that these people are the leaders of this nation,” said one of the male students.

A female student at the school was so furious and with lamentation asked rhetorically that “can these people send this kind of bus to the schools of their children? I know they dare not do that.

It is saddened that the bus, I was told, was supposed to have been delivered since 2021 now resurfaced in January 2024. This is a bus of death if care is not taken.

“I want to implore you journalists to help us tell Nigerians what happened so that we will not suffer untimely death when using this rickety bus”.