PRINCIPALS involved in unlawful levies collection have been removed from certain secondary school in Cross River state while the others have been suspended or transferred.
This information was revealed yesterday during a ministerial briefing in Calabar by the Commissioner for Quality Education, Dr. Godwin Amanke.
He said, “We have given a lot of queries. Twelve principals were removed, six suspended and 16 were transferred,” for the misdemeanor.
He added that he had learned some principals were paying up to N300,000 to be transferred.
He acknowledged the danger of cultism in secondary schools and indicated that officials were being sent in to keep an eye on the schools.
Amanke went on to discuss his ministry’s accomplishments, highlighting the completion of the N11.5 billion Teachers Training Institute in the Biase Local Government Area and the rehabilitation of run-down schools around the state.
“If I had my way, I would make education free in the state. I did it as a local government chairman,” he said, adding that 1,000 teachers were being employed for public schools in the state.
The commissioner for rural transformation, Edem Okokon, had stated publicly that several rural roads had been repaired and that many solar-powered boreholes had been dug in the communities of Obudu, Obanliku, Bekwarra, and Yala to address the severe lack of potable water there.
He bemoaned the housing estate in Bakassi being destroyed during the #EndSARS protest in 2020, which had not been rebuilt.
He revealed that 157 government and private premises were burnt during the event.
The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Eric Anderson, also urged the Federal Government to release the N45 billion approved for the state as compensation for people whose homes were destroyed during the #EndSARS demonstration.
