Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has pledged to ensure the preservation of infrastructures in the education sector and to ensure that the intended benefits of government investment of the people’s funds are delivered to the targeted beneficiaries optimally.
The governor has therefore tasked headmasters and headmistresses of model primary schools built across the state to utilize the live-in facilities to enhance their care of the pupils and protection of the facilities in line with the aspirations of his administration’s Arise Agenda, to create a learning environment in public schools that will entice children’s desire to be there.
Governor Eno, who was speaking at the commissioning ceremony of the model primary school, Uko-Oyukim in Oron local government area, said a special education monitoring team was about to be activated to monitor the model schools and any headteacher found not to be living on campus or whose school facilities are not well managed will be replaced.
He therefore tasked the Akwa Ibom State Infrastructure & Assets Management and Maintenance Agency to step their vigilance over the educational facilities, adding that he was willing to bring to bear the kind of vigilance he had over his business as a hotelier, where he would work round the clock to ensure every guest enjoys utmost comfort, to make Akwa Ibom children receive the best from government investment in the education sector.