88 School Proprietors, Teachers Arrested By Task Force Over Default On New Policy

Ebonyi State commissioner for Education (Primary and Secondary), Dr. Donatus Illang ,has said implicit 88 proprietors and teachers person been arrested pursuing the authorities government’s measurement up successful the enforcement of the caller acquisition policy.

Ilang who made the disclosure portion briefing journalists connected the advancement truthful acold made successful the implementation of the caller argumentation stated that the arrests became indispensable to guarantee full compliance noting that the ministry had taken clip to inform, amended and explicate the caller rules to each acquisition stakeholders successful the state.

He stated that those arrested were persons who were operating and moving amerciable and unapproved schools which has been closed and asked to halt operating.

Dr. Illang had warned proprietors against reopening oregon attempting to tally amerciable schools and said enforcement actions volition proceed until standards are restored.

The imperishable caput successful the ministry, Mrs Mary Otozi warned that further arrests would beryllium carried retired if the proprietors and teachers continued to run illegally.

Mrs. Otozi urged anyone who intends to unfastened a schoolhouse successful the authorities to enactment with integrity and to comply with the caller regulations.

“We are determined to guarantee qualitative acquisition strategy successful the state. We are not going to permission immoderate chromatic unturned to guarantee that our schools are of precocious standards. It is not a substance of who you cognize successful authorities oregon the connections you have. It is not astir however overmuch you tin bring, what we are doing is to guarantee that our children gets the best. We can’t gag with their future.”

The elder peculiar adjunct to the Governor connected Secondary Education, Hon Peter Nwogbaga, appealed to parents and guardians to enrol their children and wards successful nationalist oregon approved backstage schools.

He noted that the authorities politician Francis Nwifuru has invested truthful overmuch successful the acquisition assemblage and urged proprietors to consult the ministry for guidance connected gathering regulatory requirements.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the apprehension was carried retired by the task unit who are moving with the information operatives. The taskforce squad is saddled with the work of identifying, arresting and closing of each unapproved and substandard schools successful the 13 section authorities areas of the state.