Igala Education Summit: Aidoko Calls for Urgent Intervention in Primary, Secondary Education

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By Yusuf Abubakar.

Senator Atai Aidoko Ali has called for an urgent intervention from the stakeholders of Igala Education Summit (IES) in the management of Primary and Secondary schools to arrest the sharp fall in the standard of education in Kogi East.

Aidoko made this plea in a message to mark the yearly Igala Education summit for 2018, held at Kogi State University Anyigba.

He said the body should also consider the fast erosion of elementary education as a serious danger to the development of Igala land.

Senator Aidoko commended the missionaries and UBEC for keeping to high standard in spite of obvious lack of political will from the state government towards Primary and Secondary education.

He urged UBEC to sustain the strict supervisory roles that led to the proliferation of classroom blocks to other areas of furniture, instructional materials and manpower development/capacity enhancement.

Senator Aidoko opined that the regulatory and monitoring measures adopted by the two organs had addressed diversion, corruption and reduced abandoned projects in the elementary schools.

He said, although, the greatest undoing on the part of elementary education is lack of teachers as a result of state government decision to unilaterally disengage,terminate,retrench and declared some of them “ghosts” that had led to empty classes/schools.

Kogi east senator said the idea of concentrating attention on higher and tertiary education is not out of place, but should not be done at the mercy of the elementary education that is the foundation to higher levels.

He maintained that the summit should form, as part of its communique, the need to address the decadence in elementary education, to reposition the schools and address government decisions in that regard.

He commended the organisers for carrying out on a yearly basis, a thorough assessment of our genuine educational development, while urging them to sustain the tempo and uplift the educational development and standard.

Senator Aidoko assured the summit of his desire to partner UBEC and the SDGs to improve the educational output of the area and performance, both at elementary and tertiary levels. 


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