The
State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare
has ordered the immediate closure of Owian in Udu Local Government Area for
vandalism and incessant harassment of teachers in the school.
Professor Muoboghare gave this directive in the school when he inspected the
damaged school buildings and vandalised vehicles belonging to some teachers.
He said that the school will remain closed until all the damaged structures
were repaired, vehicles repaired to the satisfaction of owners as well as
guarantee the safety of teachers.
The Commissioner who was shocked
with the level of destruction in the school wondered how sane students could
destroy structures meant for their use and expect the Ministry to fold its arm
and allow such miscreants to remain in school.
Professor Muoboghare said that while
the Ministry was contemplating erecting new structures in the school due to
population explosion of students, some misguided students and their cohorts
would take the law into their hands and destroy the available structures.
While commiserating with the
principal and staff of the school for the ordeal they had gone through in the
hands of the students, the commissioner appealed to them to remain calm and
wait for further directive from the Ministry.
Earlier in her speech, the Principal
of the school, Mrs Julie Etemike said that for some time now,some students in
collaboration with outsiders had been causing trouble in the school by firing
bangers at fellow students and teachers.
She stated that they had been
teaching under fear and therefore appealed to the commissioner to come to their
aid and save them from the hands of the bad boys.
Meanwhile, Professor Muoboghare has
appointed a five-man adhoc Committee to look into the remote and immediate
causes of the violent action of the students of the school.
The committee headed by the Director
of Adult and Non-Former Education, Mrs. Julie Akinmoyewa has Mrs. Roseline
Owhevwo, Mr. Segun Orukomayor and a representative of the Post Primary Education
Board as member while the Chief Inspector of Education, Udu Local Government
Area, M. Joseph Edafeghwara who would serve as Secretary/Member.
The Committee is to submit its
report in two week beginning from the date of first sitting.
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