Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),
Muhammad Musa Bello, has directed the Abuja
Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the
FCT Task Team on Environment to get rid of
herdsmen involved in grazing.

Describing the situation as “buzzard”, the
minister equally directed the two agencies to
stop hawkers selling on pedestrian bridges.

The directives came as the minister ordered any
principal of government schools in Abuja who
fails to achieve 50 percent success in the 2017
WASSCE and NECO exams should honourably
resign or risk being sacked.

Speaking at a meeting with school principals in
the territory, Bello said that the 30 percent
success recorded in the 2016 WAEC and NECO
in FCT schools was no longer acceptable.

Malam Bello who was represented at the
meeting by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr.
Babatope Ajakaiye insisted that that students
must achieve at least 50 percent or the
principal will be penalized.

The Minister warned that the FCT
Administration will no longer accept excuses of
poor infrastructure or inadequate teachers;
saying that school principals must do everything
to ensure that this situation is changed.

He said it is unthinkable that the FCT with the
largest concentration of the elite, which should
be setting the pace for other states, is now
turning out a measly 30 percent success in very
critical examinations as WAEC and NECO.
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“The mandate I will give you that goes with
sanction; for this new session, every principal
must be determined that for WAEC and NECO in
2017, any principal that does not achieve 50
percent success should just quietly leave that
school because the principal is going to be
removed.
“If you don’t achieve 50 percent success in
WAEC and NECO 2017, you are no longer fit to
be a principal in FCT and I mean it. That is the
minimum that we want for every school and you
must work towards it,” he stressed.

The Minister added, “We want the success rate
to change. That is very important. We cannot be
gathering students and at the end of their final
year, all they will have is three credits. I don’t
know whether you are proud as a principal that
in your school, the success rate is five percent.

“I want principals that will be determined to say
in my school, things must change. Infrastructure
or no infrastructure, resources or no resources, I
want to put myself as a sacrifice and change
things. That is what I want to do before I leave
the service. I want to be known to have done
something good for Nigeria.”

Malam Bello also warned principals to desist
from charging illegal fees of any sort when
provisions have already been made through the
FCT Secondary Education Board to run these
schools; emphasizing that principals who
continue with this ignoble act would also attract
heavy sanctions from the FCT Administration.

His words: “My mission is not to come and
make you sad; but the situation is bad and you
know it and we are ready to tackle it. But you
must be up and doing too and that is why I said
I must call all the principals and talk to you to
do the right things. That is what this
Administration is about.

“We are ready to put the right things in place.
We are ready to work for Nigeria. But we want
people that will join us to do this. That is why
when you come to FCT today, it is not business
as usual and we want to send that message
down to our institutions.”

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The President should order same in all the cities in Nigeria.

nnachukz:
The President should order same in all the cities in Nigeria.

Yes, nobi only Abuja sabi beta things.

Nigerians should do same to those they voted into power

Long overdue I must say! The way those fulani urchins with their cattle litter d FCT without compunction has been an eyesore and grating on the nerves! I wonder why nomadic cattle herding should still be condoned within towns, city centres and residential areas!

A policy should be put in place to compel them to acquire or lease sufficient space from d minister n governors and set up standard ranches within one year or 18 months max. The government itself may provide soft loans n proper training to aid the process and ease transition as much as possible. After this timeline, nomadic herding should be banned and defaulters punished severely with their cattle auctioned off! The thought of possibly losing their sources of livelihood will make owners of herds sit up n comply!

This is the one I have a headache with though:

SpeedOfLight:


The Minister added, “We want the success rate
to change. That is very important. We cannot be
gathering students and at the end of their final
year, all they will have is three credits. I don’t
know whether you are proud as a principal that
in your school, the success rate is five percent.
“I want principals that will be determined to say
in my school, things must change. Infrastructure
or no infrastructure, resources or no resources, I
want to put myself as a sacrifice and change
things.

How does d minister expect 50% success rate without requisite investment in infrastructure and availability of resources? Are principals, teachers and students miracle workers? Jesus healed many by His spoken word but He still demonstrated the need for a solid foundation in cases of feeding the multitude and providing wine at the wedding of Cana. He made use of available bread n fish then multiplied them; water was available b4 becoming wine!

This is d problem with dull leaders that want to play to d gallery with fine words yet shirk d responsibility of providing an enabling n conducive environment for success. He ought to be taking stock of what's missing, undertaking to and actually providing them so that there's no excuse!

If roofs are leaking, sanitary conditions are poor or non-existent, teachers are poorly paid, tables n chairs are insufficient for students and so on, where will d mandatory 50% success come from? This is how they will encourage examination malpractices even more as d easy way out; which kind sacrifice? The principals wan turn WAEC?

Why is it always easy to threaten d masses who are already at d mercy of an overbearing government?