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Nigeria: We Are Handicapped - Education Minister
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
30 April 2008
Posted to the web 30 April 2008
Ruby Rabiu And Ruqayyah Yusuf Aliyu
The Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachuku, said the ministry is unable to perform its statutory duties effectively because it was handicapped and bedevilled with many challenges. The minister who was speaking at a press briefing to celebrate the Education for All (EFA), said the ministry does not have the legal backing to sanction or close down schools that violated the rules .
governing the opening of schools. Calling for an effective inspectorate body, Aja-Nwachuku said the Federal Government could only clampdown on federal institutions and a few schools under them but could do nothing to the schools at the states and local government areas. He said more authorities and power needs to be given to the inspectorate division of the ministry in order to check the excesses of these schools which are currently springing up in all directions. "Can you imagine, I saw some children under the car park, which was said to be a school and they were sweating like Christmas goats. Such kind of situation is not acceptable. There was no ventilation, neither was the environment conducive," he said. He stressed that though 11 million children of school age were out of school in the country better environment needs to be provided if the country is supposed to meet the 2015 goal, pointing out that the 11 million children were part of over 80 million children world wide who are out of school
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