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As part of efforts to ensure that private schools conform to laid down rules, Imo State Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has announced that it will soon commence a statewide monitoring of illegal private schools in the state.
A statement issued in Owerri at the weekend by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. B. T. O. Ikegwuoha, said the exercise is targeted at identifying and closing illegal private schools, as well as operating with expired approval letters.
The Ministry warned that the operation would be thorough and uncompromising, and threatened to arrest proprietors whose schools had earlier been shut down for various infractions, including those marked in red who later reopened without official authorization
Ikegwuoha described such actions as clear acts of defiance and illegality, adding that the Ministry would not be liable for any consequences arising from the enforcement exercise just as he urged proprietors to regularize their operations immediately.
He said, “to be forewarned is to be forearmed. This is the final warning.”
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