T he Ogun State Government has shut down more than 50 privately-owned primary and secondary schools across the state for violating registration rules. Officials of the state Ministry of Education, Science and Technology carried out the exercise, tagged, “Operation Praise or Shame.”
Most of the affected schools included those that failed to formalise their registration and renewal of licenses of operation with the state government.
However, those schools that met the ministry’s registration requirements were praised and presented with certificate of operation.
The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Modupe Mujota, who led one of the three teams constituted to carry out the exercise in the Ogun West Senatorial District, said that the measure became imperative in order to compel the private sector to complement government’s efforts at providing qualitative education to every citizen of the state, irrespective of religion, race or creed.
Mujota said, “We are doing this to tell investors in education, especially at primary and secondary school levels, that quality will not be compromised in any ramification.
The present administration is doing all it could towards ensuring the best for the citizen of the state in educational attainment.
“The onus therefore lies on them to complement government efforts in this direction.”
The commissioner added that the government would not fold its arms while the future of the children in the state was being jeopardised.
She warned parents to conduct thorough investigation on any school before enrolling their wards so that they would not be deprived of the qualitative education that the present administration had been aiming at.
The other two teams were led by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Bayo Adeyemi, in Ogun Central, while the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry led the team deployed in the Ogun East Senatorial District.
Meanwhile, all primary and secondary schools in the state on Thursday, June 15, 2017 proceeded on the mid-term holiday for the third term of the 2016/2017.
According to a release signed by the commissioner, school academic activities will resume on Monday, June 19, 2017.
