By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Mandate Secretary, Dahir El-katuzu has decried the low turnout of students in schools for 2nd term 2022/2023 academic session.
He made this known during inspection of schools resumption in Kwali area of the Federal Capital Territory.
El-katuzu said schools resumed on 9th January, 2023 in Abuja, but most students were yet to return.
The secretary explained that there was substantial presence of students and pupils in day schools (both private and public institutions), which boarding schools recorded very low turnout of students since the resumption of schools last Monday.
Some of the schools he visited were Government Secondary School, Government Science Technical College (GSTC), FCT LEA Pilot school, and Ambassador Global Academy.
El-Katuzu, disclosed that on the average, about 40% of students have resumed school in the area, which leaves a lot to be desired.
According to him, the situation may not be unconnected to the security situation especially in Kwali and Abaji Area Councils, which he said sometimes resumption will not be immediate as expected.
He, however revealed that administrators of Schools in Kwali, were asked to use thier initiatives to see that they introduce policies that will make students to resume school immediately.
According to him, the Secretariat has a culture of going round schools in FCT at resumption, to look into it and give advice to students that resumed.
“While we do it in the city centre, we found out that students resume almost immediately, they are asked to, but unfortunately in Kwali, we have some little difference. Today, we came to schools in Kwali instead of the normal city centre inspection.
“We have come to see schools in Kwali, and we have observed the resumption is not too poor, but actually it is not too good. On the average about 40% of students have resumed school.
“We expect a situation where students will at least have more than 50% resumption, because you can not have 100%, as there has to be some issues experienced by both students and parents”
