The lawmaker representing Abua/Odual constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly Hon. Augustine Paul Ngo has assured the people of Rivers State of quality education soon in the state, said that discussion in the 2 day Rivers education submit will not end at grammar level but shall will yield what it was organized for.
Hon. Ngo told newsmen at the end of the first day of the submit that everything said in the submit will be back by law as all they were discussing was captured in the education law before the state Assembly.
According to Ngo, who is also the chairman, House committee on education the bill has passed its public hearing stage and within this week the committee will submit its report to the house.
Hon. Ngo who supported the law on ground said that there was another called quality assurance law 2012 that has to do with monitoring and supervising education and to trace out where the government was wrong and where the private sector was wrong.
The lawmaker assured that enough teachers will have to be recruited for both primary and secondary beyond the 13,000, now talking about 97,000 teachers as a target figure in the focus.
Earlier, the Rivers State governor Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi have task the people of Rivers State to be more responsive to the issues to education. The governor makes the remark at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Port Harcourt during the education summit.
Governor Amaechi maintained that the issue of education should not be politicize because education is a right for the people and the Rivers State government will do more to invest in the education sector.
Governor Amaechi told participants that whatever decision that emanate from the summit will be used.
Earlier, Prof. Wole Soyinka has call for more participation of education in the country. Prof. Soyinka gave the advice during the two day education summit in the state.
In her welcome remark, the commissioner of Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nimi said the purpose of the summit is to review what have been done in the education sector in the past. ###
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