Reports
have it that Governor Wike has siezed the licenses of private schools
in Rivers State under controversial circumstances.
Governor Nyesom Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, on Friday reportedly
withdrew the licences of 16 of the state’s most prestigious and top
performing private schools for failing to attend a meeting he called for
their proprietors.
According to reports, Wike ordered the Education Commissioner to
sanction them for not attending a meeting — not for breaking a law or a
regulation, no, but because the man in the Rivers Governor’s Office has a
short fuse.
At the meeting, Wike also announced that majority of principals of
public secondary schools in the state will be suspended for charging
illegal levies which placed unnecessary burden on parents.
Wike told the school proprietors at the meeting that his actions
are aimed at improving the quality of education in the state. The
governor, who served as minister of state for education under Goodluck
Jonathan, announced the setting up of a committee to undertake the
comprehensive audit of all private schools in the state for the purpose
of ascertaining the quality of teachers in such schools, the nature of
their environment and their operational capacity.
He said: “This audit committee will work with stakeholders. All
schools that are not approved would be shut down immediately. We cannot
continue to have illegal schools in the state. ”
He said henceforth no private school will have permanent approval.
They will only be given temporary approvals, subject to periodic
reviews.
On the payment of levies, Governor Wike said that his
administration has commenced the process of harmonizing all rates to
eliminate multiple taxation.
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