By Moses Peter
The Ebonyi State Ministry Of Education in charge of Primary and Secondary schools has blown hot on on the Ebonyi State State University Secondary School Principal, Mr Fidelis Ozibo and other management staff over alleged insubordination and Mismanagement of the school.
The Commissioner, Dr Donatus Ilang said the school structure lacks maintenance despite the alleged charges that they are collecting from Students.
Dr Ilang also ordered the police to arrest the Principal, Mr Fidelis Ozibo and other management staff of the school for refusing to honour the invitation by the Honourable Commissioner to come and give report over a girl who was allegedly raped in the School.
The Commissioner expressed with dismay Over the lack of maintenance of facilities in the School.
He further directed that the money which the school collected from parents for multiple items which is not seen at anywhere in the school, call it convenience or even in class rooms should be refunded to the parents immediately.
The Commissioner further said that even ordinary soap cannot be seen in the toilet.
“It was because that there was no functional toilets, that was why the young girl went to deficate in the bush around the school and she was raped ” Ilang alleged.
“Of a truth, there is need for us to adjust, that is why sometimes, we leave our offices to know what is obtainable in some schools.
For the EBSU Secondary school, the step they took to restore the health of the girl who was raped was highly commendable but in the area of cleanliness of the school, like where they dump there refuse is not something to write home about. It was also discovered that many students were not on school uniforms which The students said they have paid for over a term now but they have not been given the uniform.
“I ordered for the arrest of the principal and other management staff because I called for a meeting so that he can brief the Ministry about the incidents surrounding the rape, he ignored the meeting even whe he was officially invited “. Ilang said.
American British Home Academy
The Commissioner also ordered for the closure of the American British Home Academy because the ministry had earlier closed the school but they went ahead and forcefully opened the School.
The Commissioner has also instructed the police to charge those whom they have arrested to court of competent jurisdiction.
“There is no structure in American British Home Academy that was good to be called school, all I saw there was shanties”. He said.
On his reaction, the Principal of EBSU Secondary school, Mr Emmanuel Ozibo said said his absence in the meeting called by the Commissioner for Education was deliberate as it was the Vice Chancellor of Ebonyi State University, Professor Michael Awoke that instructed him not to obey such invitation from the commissioner even when it is a duty of the Commissioner to supervise all Primary and Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State.
Mr Ozibo continue to defend all the faults and lapses pointed out by the commissioner even when it was so glaring that some of the facilities in the school are dilapidated including some classrooms, Laboratory, Computer laboratory among others.
In his reaction the Vice Chancellor, Professor Michael Awoke expressed anger on telephone conversations with Journalists, that the commissioner for education lacks the power to supervise the school whether Nursery, Primary or Secondary Schools within the institutions.
Professor Awoke, however pleaded for the release of the arrested Principal and other Management Staff of the School.
Attestation
Some of the parents who pleaded anonymous urged Ebonyi State Government to come to and rescue the school as a lot of corruption is allegedly ongoing in the School.
They thanked Commission for Education, Dr Ilang who has come to revive education in the State at large.
It was gathered that the rapist is under police custody, ready to be charged to court of law.
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