By Musa Solomon.
Operators of Fake and Unregistered Tertiary Institutions in Kogi State should have their days numbered as the state government is set to clamp down on their operation in the State.
Kogi State Commissioner for Education Science and Technology Hon. Wemi Jones made this known when he received in his office the State House of Assembly Standing Committee on Education led by the Chairman Hon. Idris Mekudi Aliyu on an oversight functions in Lokoja.
According to him, the activities of fake and unregistered higher institutions in the State is a menace that must be curbed. Akpa Local Government alone he said has about seventeen fake and unregistered higher institutions extorting and given fake certificates to unsuspected people in the State.
These unregistered higher institutions have been given opportunities to get the necessary requirements for their operation in the State, yet refused to take it.
Government he said would not compromised on the standard of Education as everything would be done to stop their operation, adding that the State Education law has given the Ministry the power to act and deal with whoever that run contrary to the law.
The government of Alhaji Usman Ododo he said would consolidate on the gains recorded in education by the immediate past administration as more focus would be on Primary and Secondary level of Education.
He stated that Public Primary and Secondary Schools in the State would be repositioned in accordance with the 2021- 2030 State Education Strategic Plan to make the schools more attractive for parents and guardians to have an option to choose between enrolling their Wards in Public or Private schools.
The process of repositioning public schools across the State he noted has already begun as the Ministry would constitute taskforce across the State to Monitor, Inspect and Evaluate the progress made in schools.
He commended the Legislature for the synergy it has built with the Executive arm of government, saying that the people of the State would be the beneficiaries of the cordial relationship.
Speaking, the Chairman House Committee on Education, Hon. Idris Mekudi Aliyu enjoined the Commissioner to do everything to curb the activities of unregistered and fake Schools in the State, promising to support the Ministry with needed legislation to reduce the activities of these criminals in the State.
