By Uzo Ugwunze, Ojoto

The Anambra State govern­ment has commenced the employment of additional 1000 teachers to strengthen the work force in the education sector.

The government has also directed the completion of the fencing of girls’ secondary schools yet to be fenced in the state.

GovernorWillie Obiano dis­closed this recently during the inauguration of the new office complex of the Post Primary School Service Commission (PPSSC) Onitsha Education zone built by the Parents Teachers As­sociation (PTA).

Obiano said that the success Anambra State was experiencing in the education sector was as a result of the enhancement of supervision, adding that it has improved the quality of education across the schools in the state to conform with acceptable standards.

“Supervision of education is key to quality education enforce­ment. If you leave the schools on their own without supervision, we probably will not get the kind of result we are having today in this state. This year we are going to en­hance the supervision arm of the education sector, so that they can do more by supervising teachers.

“I am sure you are already aware of the 1st phase of our re­cruitment of teachers is ongoing. We are recruiting 1000 teachers as we speak, 500 teachers for the secondary and 500 for the pri­mary section. By the time these teachers will finish undergo­ing their training and deployed to various areas, we will com­mence the 2nd phase. We want to achieve the number of teach­er-to-pupil ratio as stipulated by the United Nations”, he said.

The governor promised to in­clude the fencing of the PPSSC Onitsha education zone com­pound in the ongoing fencing of all the technical colleges and girls’ secondary schools.

“I have given instruction to change the roofs of these old buildings and to landscape this place with immediate effect. I have instructed the commis­sioner for public utilities and his counterpart the commissioner for education to estimate the ca­pacity of electric generating set to be used here; the sinking of a borehole to ensure distribution of water in all buildings here and to include this place in the fencing ongoing at all the technical col­lege and Girls’ schools yet to be fenced. All this should be deliv­ered and completed within two weeks”, Obiano said.

The governor thanked the par­ents of the students for erecting such beautiful edifice and urged parents of other educational zone to emulate same.

In their separate speeches, the Commissioner for education, Prof Kate Omenugha, Chairman of the PPSSC, Lady Joy Ulasi and Zonal Director of Education Onit­sha, Mrs. Ugo Eze, eulogised the achievements of the governor in the educational sector, saying that parents and other stakehold­ers’ contributions were as a result of the good leadership provided by the present administration.

They, on behalf of the princi­pals and teachers, said they will continue to sacrifice their best to enhance quality of education in Anambra State.

The Chairman of Onitsha North Local Government, Mr. Patrick Aghamba and the chair­man of the occasion, Chief Fran­cis Udeoba, welcomed the gov­ernor and his team and urged other well-meaning individuals from the state to support govern­ment projects.

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