Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, yesterday blamed the former governor of the state Chief Martin Elechi, for failure to pay attention to the education sector.
Umahi attributed the rot in the state’s education sector to the failure of the immediate past administration to pay attention to the problems therein.
The governor stated this in his country home, at Umunaga-Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area when members of the State Universal Basic Education Board and the Secondary Education Board led by Chief Hyacinth Ikpor and Mr. Emmanuel Odoh respectively paid him Christmas visit.
It would be recalled that the former governor built over 36 boarding schools across the 13 local government areas of the state, but for Umahi he (Elechi) failed to equip them with modern facilities.
He said: “Our educational system is very much in problem. I think the immediate past administration did not really care about education”.
Describing education as a very important sector in his administration, the governor stated the need to convene an interactive meeting of all stakeholders in the education sector on how to tackle the problems.
He maintained that the desire of his administration to make the state come first in the Senior Secondary School Examination and the National Examination Council examinations could only be achieved within the first two years of his administration through the collective efforts of all the stakeholders. He told the board members, “I want you to sit down and look at how to improve education. The only way you are judged is by the improvement in education.’’
Umahi directed them to re-evaluate their teachers before the middle of January, 2016 stressing that no one would be sacked after the exercise. He explained that only those that were fit would remain in the classrooms, while others would be redeployed to areas like agriculture.
Earlier in their respective remarks, the Chairman of UBEB, Chief Ikpor and his SEB counterpart, Mr. Odoh, said they came to felicitate with the governor and to congratulate him on his election tribunal and Court of Appeal victories.
They restated their determination to continue to work according to the goals of the present administration to ensure that the decay in the education sector is stemmed. (National Mirror)
