The Akwa Ibom State Ethical and Attitudinal Reorientation Commission (EARCOM), have called on citizens to enrol their children in public schools with assurance that they remain best as the State Government is making tremendous effort to improve the quality of education being a focal point of the ARISE Agenda.
EARCOM Board Member, Sir Ubong Ekefre, explained that Governor Umo Eno, is revamping public schools in the State, citing the remodeled C. K. S Primary School, Wellington Bassey Way, (which will be replicated across the State), the ongoing provision of School materials for pupils, release of 100 million education aid as grant to students with disabilities, appointment of a Personal Assistant on Students Matters and payment of bursaries to indigent undergraduate student’s, as some of the actions that underline the commitment of the administration to significantly improve education.
Sir Ekefre, who gave the assurance on Tuesday while speaking as guest of a moral advocacy programme on AKBC Radio, “EARCOM Hour,” with Osondu Ahirika, further argued that, overtime, products of public schools have proven their quality by emerging top in national or international academic competitions or examinations over their private school counterparts.
The former ALGON Chairman of Akwa Ibom State said, “even Governor Umo Eno and majority of the prominent leaders of the State and Nigeria are products of public schools.”
Ekefre recalled that he attended a Local Primary School Ukam, Mkpat Enjn, in the along and learnt discipline, ethical values and moral instructions from there which became foundational to his future success in fleeing from peer pressure induced social vices and academic success.
He enumerated reasons public schools remain a formidable option for parents to include attraction of the best qualified teachers, having diversity which leads to a greater sense of community bonding, increased educational choices, supervision, stability, and provision of better amenities.
Harping that public schools belong to the people as against the profit seeking private schools, Sir Ekefre said, EARCOM is encouraging parents to continue to trust them by enrolment of their wards and desist from the inconvenience of begging for help to pay unaffordable school fees in some private schools in vain pursuit of status and living fake lives.
Ekefre while recommending public schools dismissed insinuations that they are cult infested, poorly staffed with unserious teacher’s as hasty generalisation and unfounded.
He commended Governor Eno for his commitment t tomely psyment of teacher’s salaries, defraying the backlog of pensions and gratuities owed retired teacher’s, sustaining the free and compulsory education, even as he charged parents, teacher’s and host communities to collaborate in ensuring standards are maintained in public schools.
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