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From Abubakar Abdullahi, in Lafia
Low enrollment of pupils in public schools has been attributed to the lack of teachers and proliferation of private schools in Nasarawa State.
This came to the fore at the meeting between management of the State Universal Basic Education and Education Secretaries of the 13 local government areas of the state.
The meeting, aimed at providing solutions to the challenges bedeviling basic education in the state, identified lack of teachers, proliferation of private schools, lack of sensitization and mobilisation, communal crisis, deliberate withdrawal of pupils for farming and marriages, absence of UBE law enforcement as factors responsible for low enrolment in public primary schools in the state.
The situation which the Executive Chairman, Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board, Muhammad Musa Dan’azimi, while addressing the gathering expressed dissatisfaction with the high level of truancy and absenteeism of teachers in the school.
On lack of maintenance culture and compromise of some unpatriotic contractors on SUBEB projects, the Board, tasked Community leaders in the on the need to take ownership of Government projects by ensuring proper maintenance of projects sited in their domain to ensure their maximum usage.
Dan’azimi, said the Board under his watch will operate an open door policy and appealed to join in the crusade to revamping the primary school system in the state, adding that the Board will no longer tolerate any compromise of some contractors on SUBEB’s projects across the state.
Earlier, one of the Education Secretaries at the meeting and also the Chairman Education Secretaries forum in the state Comrade Jibril Danladi Nayawo, lamented that to overcome enrolment challenges in public schools in the state, civil servant including those in the education system should stop patronising private schools in the state.
He added that the Board should embark on advocacy visits to traditional ruler and community leaders, intensive publicity on both electronic and prints media, stage a campaign on sensitisation and awareness in market square, Mosque, churches, encourage literacy and numeracy and enforcement of UBE law amongst others.
Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board recently met with all Education Secretaries in the state to profer solution to the challenges confronting enrolment, retention and completion in public primary schools in the state.
The meeting which is the fourth under the current management of the Board, is coming after four weeks of resumption of primary school teachers while the process of employing more teachers is ongoing in the board.
