RSHA To Partner Church, Others On Security

The Rivers State House of Assembly says it would partner, with the church and other non-governmental organisations and come up with an appropriate legislation that will restore the quality of education in Rivers State.

Deputy Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Leyii Kwanee stated this at the 2012 Diocesan Lenten flag off at Mater Misericordia Catholic Church, Port Harcourt.

With the theme: Access to Qualitative Education: Panacea to Peace and Security in Nigeia,” Hon. Kwanee said this was important because the Assembly believed that education had far reaching implication not only to maintain peace and address security challenges, but also to move the nation forward in national development and productivity.

The lawmaker who commended Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi for the physical infrastructure put in place in the state and plans to standardise the quality of education, blamed the current security challenges in the nation on the absence of qualitative education in the educational system of the country.

According to him, “the absence of qualitative education has led to the breakdown of moral training of pupils and students such that schools, instead of churning out disciplined and responsible pupils and students, are training cultists who at any slightest excuse foment trouble in the society”.

The Deputy Speaker attributed most security challenges to the collapse of qualitative education which, he said, has led to having pupils and students who belonged to cult groups or gangs to continue with such network after leaving school.

“Most organised crimes were fallouts of such undisciplined students who exacerbate the security situation in the country”, he said.

He further stated that the underlining factors could be economic pressures on the family resulting in lack of proper care for the children and excessive exposure of the pupils/students to the media.

Kwanee,  however, reassured that the Rivers State House of Assembly would partner with  the church and other non-governmental organisations with a view to coming up with appropriate legislation to  restore quality of education.