The Nasarawa State House of Assembly said on Friday that it would collaborate with the state Ministry of Education to close down all illegal private schools to improve the standard of education.
Mr Daniel Ogah-Ogazi, the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science and Technology, made this known when the state Commissioner for Education appeared before the committee to defend her 2017 budget.
Ogah-Ogazi assured of the assembly’s readiness to partner the executive in order to improve on the standard of education in the state through quality legislation.
“In order to improve on the standard of education in the state, we will collaborate with the state Ministry of Education.
“We will visit all private schools across the state as part of our oversight function to know the registered and unregistered ones.
“During the oversight function, we will also know schools that meet up with the required education standard and the ones that did not meet up.
“We will not hesitate to close down any private school that did not meet up with the required education standard.
“We will continue to enact laws that have direct bearing on the education sector as well as on the lives of the people as no nation could achieve meaningful progress without sound education,” he said.
Ogah-Ogazi urged the commissioner to sanction any school that was involved in sharp practice of any kind.
He also advised the commissioner and her team to continue to monitor and ensure effective supervision of schools and to ensure that quality job was done in the interest of the education sector.
Earlier, Hajiya Ramatu Abubakar, the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, said the government would continue to key into positive education policies to improve quality of education in the state.
Abubakar assured of the ministry’s commitment to continue to ensure effective supervision of schools.
NAN