Sani El-katuzu, Secretary for Federal Capital Territory Education Secretariat, has expressed the readiness to sanction proprietors of private schools abusing the nationally approved curriculum for schools.
El-katuzu issue the warning shortly after receiving the official handover briefs of the secretariat from the Director of Administration and Finance in the FCT, Leramoh Abdulrazaq, on Tuesday, in Abuja.
The former, who decried what he described as the outright violation of laws, said that the secretariat would no longer tolerate situations where strange elements were being introduced to schools in the name of branding.
El-katuzu said that “There are some other challenges I also need to point out like private proprietors of schools within the FCT operating outside the laws. They are not supposed to follow teaching outside the nationally accepted curriculum.
“No school in Nigeria will be allowed to teach any child outside the approved curriculum. There are schools that adopt curriculum from elsewhere to come and teach in our schools and we will not tolerate that.”
He stressed the need for private schools to collaborate with the regulatory agencies with a view to avoid flouting the law, adding that “My findings revealed that some private schools in the Federal Capital Territory are owned by the who is who of this country.
“We will not make any distinction between highly placed or commoners. All Nigerians are equal and we should operate within the law.”
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