2 January 2009
Lagos — Anambra State government has announced immediate return of 18 schools to its owners.
Some of the school immediately handed over in the first phase of the exercise are: Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha; Girls Secondary School, Onitsha; Christ the King College, Onitsha; Queen of the Rosary Collage, Onitsha; Mater Amabilis Secondary School, Umuoji; Girls Secondary School, Umudioka; St Peters Secondary School, Achina; All Saints Secondary School, Umuneze; Girls Secondary School, Ozubulu; Girls Secondary School, Nnewi; Boys Secondary School, Oraifite; Comprehensive Secondary School, Nawfia; Girls Secondary School, Awka.
Others are St John of God Secondary School, Awka; St Mary's High School, Ifite Dunu; St. Michael's Model Comprehensive Secondary School, Nimo; and Loretto Special Science School, Adazi.
The state Governor, Peter Obi, who announced the return of the schools in a new year state-wide broadcast, said the return was part of his government's policy of strengthening partnership with non-governmental sectors, adding that the handover was also part of government efforts to raise academic and moral standards in the schools.
Obi thanked the people of Anambra State for their support in 2007 and 2008 and appealed for their continued support and cooperation in 2009. He also pledged to continue with policies and programes that will ultimately benefit everyone and promised that government would continue to protect the interest of the people.
Obi said the executive will soon send a bill to the state Assembly to make kidnapping a capital offence.
He said government would focus on the aggressive clean-up of Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha within the first quarter and revealed that the state Environmental Protection Agency (ANSEPA) had been reorganised for the job and charged traders to keep their markets clean or risk closure of their markets.
He charged politicians to always play according to the rules and appealed to them not to use other people's children as thugs, while sending theirs abroad for schooling.
He said the state would soon launch faith and community based micro credit and strive to sustain the increase in the state's Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
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