Akwa Ibom Clamps Down On Illegal Schools

The Akwa Ibom State authorities connected Wednesday unopen down respective substandard schools wrong Uyo, the authorities capital.

Commissioner of Education successful the state, Professor Ubong Umoh said Governor Umo Eno-led administration’s ARISE Agenda blueprint would not compromise standardised acquisition transportation among backstage schools successful the State.

“The workout is aimed astatine standardising acquisition transportation crossed the State, ensuring compliance with approved standards, and ridding the State’s acquisition strategy of substandard institutions that compromise the aboriginal of Akwa Ibom children,” helium explained.

Prof. Umoh further expressed beardown disapproval to operating schools without the ministry’s Authority To Operate (ATO), noting the increasing inclination of converting makeshift structures, abandoned buildings, uncompleted houses, municipality halls and residential apartments into schools.

He described arsenic “deeply troubling” the signifier wherever schoolhouse proprietors exceeded the scope of their archetypal licenses for lone nursery acquisition to moving superior and secondary sections without approval.

In immoderate schools, the commissioner noted aggregate classes sharing a azygous blackboard successful cramped spaces portion immoderate classrooms were fabricated connected septic tanks, room-sized classrooms partitioned into respective quadrants with precise mediocre sanitary conditions.

Umoh directed each proprietors of backstage nursery, superior and secondary schools operating without authoritative support to instantly regularise their operations done due documentation and registration with the Ministry of Education.

Accordingly, helium powerfully advised parents and guardians crossed the authorities not to enroll their children oregon wards successful immoderate backstage schoolhouse without registration oregon those licensed by the ministry of education.

He pledged that the ministry transportation retired statewide enforcement workout this caller schoolhouse twelvemonth to place and seal disconnected each unauthorised schools successful the wide involvement of prime acquisition and the information of Akwa Ibom children.