Abia to revoke handover of schools due to abuse — Commissioner

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Abia state Commissioner for Education, Dr. Kanelechi Nwangwa, has frowned at the abuse of permissions granted some organisations to take -over public schools from the state government.

Nwangwa also declared government’s intention to revoke the permissions given such organisations for reducing the schools to business centres and personal estates to be sold to land buyers.

The commissioner, who disclosed this in Aba on Wednesday, said that “we are going to revoke a number of them. Already, we are working on a number of them with the ministry of justice and the ministry of lands.

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“By the time we finish what we are doing, we will take a decision that we are going to make public. Many of them are partitioning and selling the land spaces out and using them for other things.

“We are still working to get more facts because we cannot conclude now as we are still working on a number of the issues because we want to be sure and then come up with some concrete things,” he said.

The commissioner regretted that some of the schools the ministry has visited such as the Secondary Technical School, Ogbor Hill, Aba showed little signs of schooling.

He pointed out that All Saints Secondary School, Ogbor Hill was also affected by the abuse by its management resulting in a near complete seizure of academic activities.

Many of the organisations the state government handed some public schools to manage in Aba have partitioned their land and sold same to individuals for residential buildings.

This action prompted an outcry from the Ehere community in Obingwa Local Council Area of the state in 2017 through its traditional ruler, Eze Young Nwangwa, who lamented that the purpose of donating the lands for the construction of the schools has been defeated.