RSG Warns Principals On Science Equipment

Rivers State Government has warned that it would deal decisively with any senior secondary school principal caught hiring out science equipment to private secondary schools in the state.
The state Commissioner for Education, Dr Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, who gave the warning in Port Harcourt, said any principal caught in the crime risked losing all he/she had worked for, as the appointment of such offender would be terminated.
Speaking at the venue of the distribution of science equipment to principals of 270 senior secondary schools in the state, ahead of Senior Secondary Schools Science Practical Examination, the commissioner disclosed that its monitoring and supervision of schools had exposed three principals who hired science equipment to private schools in the state.
Gogo-Jaja, who expressed displeasure with the discovery, noted that the gesture of the Governor Nyesom Wike-led government in providing the science equipment to senior secondary schools in the state was to enhance the performance of public schools in the senior secondary school examinations.
He said the state government would exercise zero tolerance on any principal who sabotaged government’s progressive policies and programmes.
The commissioner also charged the principals to maintain their integrity and that of the public schools which, he believed, were well staffed and equipped to deliver credible and excellent results in the senior secondary school examinations.
This, they can do, by ensuring that the credibility and sanctity of the senior secondary school examination in their schools are not compromised, he said.
The distribution of science equipment to public schools, it was gathered, had been an annual gesture by the Wike government to enhance the performance of students in the senior secondary school science practical examination in the state.