By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
Following the recent Chrisland School viral sex video, the FCT Administration through the Education Secretariat has threatened to clamp down on schools contravening the the rules of operations in the nation’s capital city, to mitigate scandalous incidences involving children in the learning environment.
The FCTA a in a like manner admonished parents not to relinquish their parental responsibilities to schools, nor should any parent give excuse to that would allow their kids to be wayward in the society.
The Secretary of the Education Secretariat, Malam Sani El-ktuzu, made this known when he led FCTA officials to Chrisland school, in Wumba District, Abuja, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the recent sex scandal involving a female student and three other males of the Lagos arm of the school, during an international sports competition in Dubai.
El-ktuzu, informed that officers from the FCT Department of Quality Assurance had recently visited Chrisland school and other schools including public schools, in order to enforce standing school rules and regulations in FCT.
He emphasized that the Secretariata a regulatory body, and warned that it won’t hesitate to close any school, once it is in default of the rules of operations in FCT.
“Our people do their job by constantly visiting both public and private schools, that is why we have low incidences of unfortunate situations in our schools .”
” I would advise parents to take the training of their students very seriously. We should not surrender our parental responsibility to schools, as they simply cannot as once you’re not a parent , there is no way you can give parental care,” he stressed.”
Responding, Principal of Chrisland School in Abuja, Taiwo Adenariwo, disclosed that some of the sanctions that were imposed on Chrisland in Lagos have been lifted, because the investigation was still ongoing.
He however appealed that the FCT Secretary for Education should create a platform where parents can also be addressed on such issue, as a way of creating a decent environment.
He said, “It’s a welcome development for all stakeholders in the business of taking care of our children especially the schools, the FCT Education Secretariat has done well, in visiting us to sympathise with us and also to offer advice, in regards to the issue.”
“We must also begin to bring parents into the narratives, we must begin to let them know that there are consequences for some of the things that we do with our children, as they are not just the responsibility of the schools alone.”
“For us in the FCT, and all our other schools as well, we are doing everything important to make sure that children turn out exact way we want them to be, morally upright and spiritually filled”.
