By; ADAMA JOHN, Lokoja
No fewer than seventeen illegal institutions of higher learning adulterating academic exercise are to be axed by Kogi State Government.
The Education Commissioner for Science and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones dropped the hint in Lokoja, during an oversight function of the House of Assembly Standing Committee on Education officiated by Hon. Idris Aliyu Mekudi.
The second term commissioner has now seen that 17 illegal tertiary institutions infesting academic exercises in far away Ankpa in East Senatorial District have denied the use of public schools by pupils as they have turned them into their study centres.
He said all unapproved and illegal tertiary institutions will no longer be allowed to operate without providing the basic requirements necessary to do so.
The rebranded commissioner in Ododo’s administration was unequivocal in his approach to issues of quality education saying that government has beamed it’s search light on inspection, monitoring, and supervision of primary and secondary schools in the state.
This is in addition to the current resolve of the administration to review the operations of private schools in the state.
To him, the enactment of the education law which gives powers to the ministry to look at the operations of private schools will be manifested in ongoing plans by the ministry to go all out to entrench sanity to the falling standard of the education sector.
The commissioner promised to take a cursory look at the appalling standard of both primary and secondary schools that have become the sinequanon of the schools over the years.
He assured that the ministry will ensure the implementation of the education master plan through the suspension of substandard private schools as well as the setting up of task forces to monitor the activities of public schools.
Hon. Jones assured that the present administration is resolved to revamp education at the primary and secondary school levels which he described as the very cradle and foundation for sustainable education which must be given the desired priority.
