By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory Administration on Tuesday called on schools and parents in the territory to be on alert to halt the incident that occured in Chrisland School, Lagos recently.
Mandate Secretary FCT Education Secretariat, Sani El-Katuzu who led senior officials of the secretariat to the branch of the school in Abuja, vowed to close schools contravening the rules of operations.
The development was at the wake of the controversy trailing the recent sex scandal involving a female student and three other males of the Lagos arm of the school, during an international sports competition in Dubai.
He asked them to ensure that scandalous incidences involving children in the learning environment are curbed.
The mandate Secretary urged parents not to surrender their parental responsibility to schools, as there was no excuse for any parents to allow their kids to be wayward in the society.
El-ktuzu said officers from the FCT Department of Quality Assurance had recently visited Chrisland school and other schools including public schools, in order to enforce standing school rules and regulations.
While noting that the Secretariat as a regulatory body, warned that it won’t hesitate to close any school, once it is in default of the rules of operations in the territory.
“Our people do their job by constantly visiting both public and private schools, that is why we have low incidences of unfortunate situations in our schools .
“I would advise parents to take the training of their students very seriously. We should not surrender our parental responsibility to schools, as they simply cannot as once you’re not a parent , there is no way you can give parental care,” he stressed.
