The minister
of the Federal Capital Territory Muhammad Bello has read the riot act to
principals of all secondary school in the territory.
In his meeting
with the principals in Abuja, Bello mandated all schools to attain a 50%
success in the African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination
Council (NECO) in the next academic year.
Represented by
the FCT permanent secretary Babatope Ajakaiye, the minister said, the 30
percent success recorded in 2016 WAEC and NECO in FCT schools is no longer
acceptable.
The minister
said: “The mandate I will give you that goes with sanction; for this new
session, every principal must be determined that for WAEC and NECO in 2017, any
principal that does not achieve 50 percent success should just quietly leave
that school because the principal is going to be removed.”
He said if students
do not attain this pass level the principals will be penalized.
“If you don’t
achieve 50 percent success in WAEC and NECO 2017, you are no longer fit to be a
principal in FCT and I mean it. That is the minimum that we want for every
school and you must work towards it,” Bello said.
Bello further
warned that the FCT Administration will no longer accept excuses of poor
infrastructure or inadequate teachers.
He said called
on all school principals to do all it takes to ensure that the situation is reversed
completely.
“We want the
success rate to change. That is very important. We cannot be gathering students
and at the end of their final year, all they will have is three credits. I
don’t know whether you are proud as a principal that in your school, the
success rate is five percent,” he said.
Bello also
warned principals against charging illegal fees on students especially when
provisions have already been made through the FCT Secondary Education Board to
run these schools.
He, any
principal found wanted in such act would be sanctioned by the FCTA.
Bello said:
“My mission is not to come and make you sad; but the situation is bad and you
know it and we are ready to tackle it. But you must be up and doing too and
that is why I said I must call all the principals and talk to you to do the
right things.”
“That is what
this administration is about. We are ready to put the right things in place. We
are ready to work for Nigeria. But we want people that will join us to do this.
That is why when you come to FCT today, it is not business as usual and we want
to send that message down to our institutions,” he said.
On Wednesday,
August 31, the FCT minister announced a change in the resumption date of
schools in Abuja.
The minters
said the first term would begin on Sunday, September 18 – boarding students –
and Monday, September 19 for the day students.
The schools
were earlier scheduled to resume on Sunday, September 4 for boarding students
and Monday, September 5.
SOURCE: NAIJALOADED
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