Ebonyi Directs Principals To Reside In Schools

The Ebonyi State
Government has directed principals in the 31 pilot boarding secondary schools and technical colleges in the state to reside in their school compounds or get sacked.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mr Ndubuisi Agbo, gave the directive in Abakaliki while addressing school principals in the state.
The commissioner said the measure was aimed at ensuring that the principals monitored the activities in their respective schools closely.
“You must comply with the executive directive and show commitment to raising high academic and moral standards in your schools or be sacked. “The 31 pilot boarding schools are very special and designed to offer special academic programmes to our gifted children. “We must do everything possible to make this initiative produce desired result,’’ he said.
Agbo said the government had invested a lot in the special schools, adding that effort must be made to enable them produce intended results.
He said the government had built befitting staff quarters to accommodate principals and teaching staff in the pilot schools and wondered why some of the principals chose to live outside the schools, contrary to government’s directive.
Agbo said that government had repositioned the schools for academic excellence, stressing that any principal who constituted a clog in the wheel of academic progress would be shown the way out.
The commissioner reiterated government’s resolve to transforming the education sector for better service delivery.
It would be recalled that 31 affected principals signed letters of commitment to ensure the realisation of set goals of government in establishing the boarding schools.