A-one day training programme organised by the Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board to deepen the administrative knowledge and understanding of facilitators on Public Service Rules had come and gone with a call on the facilitators to see the training as an opportunity to be abreast with the civil service rules.

Speaking while delivering his keynote speech at the training held at the board headquarters in Port Harcourt yesterday the Executive chairman of the board Ven. Fyneface Ndubuisi Akah said the aim of the training was to abreast facilitators of the current best practice in educational administration with a view to forming right attitude and to develop favourable behaviour as well as expected acquaintance with the right work ethics among civil servants.

He expressed dismay that in the last four years most of the people holding responsible positions in the system lacked the requisite knowledge skill to deliver pointing out that the anomaly was discovered among the principals, teachers, heads of departments and supervising directors among others but stated that the board would not fold its arms and allow these wrongly positioned people who are hellbent on undermining government's effort to continue in the act.

He stated that the expectation of the basic education service was nothing but positive learning behaviour that must be read by the outside assessors which he said would enable the child to live in his society describing the task before the lead officers as enormous.

Akah however maintained that as coworkers with God in the task of creating and recreating humans, which is what we do in the context of schooling of children who are sent to us he therefore called on the facilitators to up their game noting that human society can only be better if education is taken seriously and described the facilitators as a very important instrument in achieving the goal of education.

The board chairman pointed out that many managers have failed as a result of lack of latent strength and ability of self discerning of themselves in understanding the expectation of work content and charged the facilitators to apply themselves properly to achieve result.

He used the medium to warn heads of schools and all those in the system to desist from any form of manipulation of records and extortion of money from parents, especially those hiding under PTA without any approval from the board as anyone caught will be made to face not just the wrath of the law but cough out any amount collected.

Earlier in his address of welcome, chairman of the committee on Public Service Rules Mr. Owukio Ibama expressed optimism that the training would enable those on managerial positions to know the appropriate measures to apply when confronted with administrative issues relating to staff misdemeanor and development.

Ibama who is the director in charge quality assurance at the board headquarters commended the Akah led board for working assiduously to develop staff to be abreast with their responsibilities in their various offices.

In his closing remarks on behalf of the Executive chairman, the commissioner in charge of administration at the board headquarters Chief Faith Amaso lauded the facilitators for turning out in their numbers for the training and advised them to cascade what they have learnt to the end users.

Papers were presented during the training by some resource persons and they were the Director Admin and Supplies Elder Dimiary Franklyn whose spoke on Appointments and Promotions, the Director Quality Assurance Mr. Owukio Ibama, presented a paper on Examination in Law, while the Supervising Director of PHALGA Engr. Eustace Belgam and the Director Legal and Public Relations Services Barrister Karibi George presented papers on Leave Matters and Discipline respectively.

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