December 19, (THEWILL) – Henceforth, all parents in Ogun State will have to sign an undertaking on behalf of their wards, promising that they will be of good behaviour within and out of the school environment.
The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Abayomi Arigbabu, disclosed this while defending the Ministry of Education’s 2022 budget presentation before the State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Hon, Olakunle Sobukanla at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He noted that the ministry’s proposal for next year was a total of N6.094bn as total expenditure for 2022, which consisted of N3.129bn for capital expenditure and N2.96bn for recurrent expenditure, just as its revenue target was fixed at N2.28bn.
Arigbabu explained further that a sum of N2.50bn was being earmarked for the construction of 60 units of a block of three classrooms, 49 units of a block of two classrooms, eight units of technical workshops/science laboratories and the rehabilitation of public schools across the State.
The commissioner, while speaking on government’s efforts to curb the menace of cultism among secondary school students across the state, said that it had engaged stakeholders including parents, teachers and security agencies to come up with various measures that would address misconduct among pupils in the state.
According to him, a School-Based Management Committee was being put in place to serve as interdisciplinary source to track and report any act inimical to peace in the school environment.
Arigbabu said the ministry would revive sporting activities to further engage pupils in extra-curriculum activities, in addition to the resuscitation of moral instruction during morning devotion in line with COVID-19 protocols to teach moral education in order to address the prevalent immorality amongst students.
He stressed that the ministry would further empower secondary school principals and strengthen the School-Based Management Committee toward profiling all pupils in the school in order to weed off the bad eggs among them.
