By Daniel Tyokua
All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), has urged President Bola Tinubu to save National Senior Secondary Education Commission from being scrapped as recommended by Oronsaye report.
Briefing journalists on Thursday in Abuja, National president of the union, Muhammad Musa said without the commission, standards and quality would deteriorate in senior secondary schools across the country.
Musa explained that it is at the secondary education level that leaners are provided with skills to be useful to self, and the society.
According to him, scrapping the commission will destroy the secondary education sector and frustrate the good structure already put in place.
Recall that Tinubu had a month ago, ordered the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, as a result, the government announced the merging, subsuming and scrapping of several agencies.
In 2011, former president Goodluck Jonathan established the presidential committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government parastatals, commissions, and Agencies, with Mr. Steve Oronsaye as the chairman.
The report listed National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) among agencies to be scrapped and functions transferred to the department of Basic and Secondary Education in Federal Ministry of Education.
The president and Principal Government Unity College, Nguru in Yobe state, said if the Oronsaye report’s axe is allowed to fall on the commission, it will bring an end to the current sustained collaborative efforts between NSSEC and the states for repositioning the schools.
Musa said, “It is at the senior secondary education level that leaners are provided with skills to be useful to self and the society.
“The scrapping if done, will leave senior secondary education and Technical Vocational Education and Training, as the only subsector without an intervention agency.
“Scrapping NSSEC would mean that senior secondary schools and would be the only educational sub-sector without a body to provide funds for its development nationwide”
