Abia state Government is to deploy security personnel in educational institutions across the state as primay and post primary schools reopen for a new academic session on the 16th of September, 2024.
The commissioner for Information Prince Okey Kanu who stated this while briefing journalists on the outcome of this week’s executive council meeting Presided over by the Governor,Dr Alex Otti, said that the development is part of proactive measures to ensure the safety of students and teachers.
Prince Kanu disclosed that as part of the state government’s agenda to reform the educational system, plans have been concluded to train two thousand master trainers for teachers in the state, adding that already 200 teachers have passed through the training while the remaining one thousand eight hundred would soon take place.
The Commissioner added that ASUBEB under its school Enhancement Team Programme, has screened and interviewed 200 teachers while 40 teachers out of the 200 have been shortlisted for a special training, preparatory for the resumption of schools.
He also further announced that Government has inaugurated a panel to midwife the upgrading of the School of Nursing Amachara to a College of Nursing Sciences to provide accessible and affordable health care Services to the people, revealing that the newly upgraded eye Center Abia Specialist Hospital, Amachara Annex, Umuahia will be commissioned this Tuesday (2/9/24).
Answering questions from newsmen, the Executive Chairman Abia state Universal Basic Education Board,ASUBEB Lady Lydia Onuoha said that the 2000 master trainers were spread across the 17 LGAS of the state, pointing out that the training is done in phases having trained the first 200 trainers.
Speaking on the deployment of security personnel to public Schools, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education Sir Kenechukwu Nwosu said the move was also in response to repeated cases of vandalism on school properties, adding that plans have also been made for the fencing of public schools without fence.
