The Chairman State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mallam Nuhu Ahmed has called for the re-constitution of School Based Management Committee (SBMC) in all primary schools across the state in a move to make them more alive to their responsibilities.
The call was contained in an address to the committees during a routine visit to LGEA School, St. Paul Primary School, and UBE JSS, all in Otube, Karara area along Abuja Road as well as Holy Trinity School I and II in Lokoja metropolis respectively.
He said the ‘’rationale behind the establishment of SBMC is to present platforms for schools and communities to work together to improve on the quality of school governance’’.
Mallam Ahmed observed that the composition of SBMC has representative of diverse groups in the community empowered to demand improved management from education authorities towards the achievement of better learning outcomes for children.
According to the chairman “it is high time the committees rise to the present realities that government alone cannot fund education as such canvass well to do people in their communities for support”.
He applauded the committees in Otube Karara for their contributions in the management of the schools just as he promised to look into requests.
Earlier in a remark, Director Social Mobilization, Mr. Ebenezer Akande told the gathering that the SBMC is the brain child of National Council on Education in 2006 which foresaw the need to ensure inclusive participation in the school system.
He said the committee is a voluntary, nonprofit and non political which is made up of 17 members with the view to promoting and supporting schools to achieve set targets in order to yield better learning outcomes for children.
In their separate remarks, the chairmen and secretaries of the schools visited, Mr. Okolo John, Mall. Abdullahi Usman of Otube Karara , Pastor Jaron Ibinudu and Mrs. L.B Oluruntoba of Holy Trinity LGEA school 1 and 2 promised to cash on the discussions by expanding their networks with the view to reaching out for a full blown community participation in the interest of their children.
