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UDUAGHAN SEEKS PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION SECTOR, MAY HANDOVER SCHOOLS TO FORMER OWNERS
Government alone cannot successfully carry out the task of ensuring excellence in the education sector, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has said. Speaking while receiving the report of the committee set up by the state government to look into the modalities for the transfer of schools to their former owners, the Governor said it has become necessary to partner with the private sector to achieve set objectives in the education sector. Governor Uduaghan assured Deltans that his administration would look into the committee’s report and implements it quickly to put to rest the protracted issue of schools handover. “I assure you and Deltans that the state government will quickly work on the report and implement it,” he said while commending committee members for working together as a team to produce the report. Submitting the report, Chairman of the Committee, Bishop Jonathan Edewor said the decision to handover only 40 schools out of the 405 secondary schools in the state was reached after careful consideration of the request made by stakeholders. He said particular attention was given to the fears expressed by the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) and Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs) over the welfare of the staff of such schools. Bishop Edewor said the exercise should be done in two ways namely full handover with adequate grant and partnership with school owners where government pays salaries and wages while proprietors manage the schools. Bishop Edewor said “The partnership will be between the former owners and state government in which government pays the salaries and wages of staff while the proprietors manage the schools.” The bishop noted that the committee recommended a gradual handover process which will span over one year so that the state government could establish parallel schools in areas where schools are to be handed over to allay the fears. He explained that the report presented in two volumes contains the terms of references, methodology, findings, recommendations and memoranda of other interest groups. Meanwhile Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has revealed that hoodlums now recruit drivers, stewards, cooks and family members into kidnapping their victims. Speaking while receiving reports from the committee set-up to look into the handover of schools in the state to their former owners, he said some of those who allegedly kidnapped Barrister Mariam Aluta, the daughter-in-law of the Chairman of the State Post Primary Education Board have been arrested. He said security operatives were still on the trail of the remaining suspects and promised to ensure that they were apprehended in no distant future. The governor who said victims would always be discouraged from paying ransom said even when ransom has been paid security operatives will still trail and arrest the criminals. Dr. Uduaghan said his administration has adopted a strategy that will check kidnap incidents in the state and charged Deltans to be vigilant. He said it was as a result of the stringent measures put in place by the police and other security operatives that reduced the rate of kidnapping in the state. “I want to assure you that kidnapping is being checked in the state. We have mapped out strong strategy to check the incident and it is reducing.” Promising to ensure that perpetrators of the heinous crime will face the full weight of the law, the governor enjoined parents and guardians to monitor the activities of their wards.   
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