Kano to clamp down on illegal schools

Umar, in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust, said all schools that failed to register with his office would be considered to be operating illegally, saying soon they would embark on closure of schools.He said when the present administration came on board, it had discovered over 2, 500 schools in existence but not more than […]

Umar, in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust, said all schools that failed to register with his office would be considered to be operating illegally, saying soon they would embark on closure of schools.
He said when the present administration came on board, it had discovered over 2, 500 schools in existence but not more than 1, 000 have registered with them.
He noted that from the beginning of this school term, the state has closed more than 30 schools for varied offences, saying most of them have now complied and re-opened.
Commenting on how the task force has been able to bring in sanity in private school operations in Kano, the chairman said they have been able to abolish some practices that were used by the private schools to extort parents.
“We have abolished schools compelling parents to buy books and uniforms from the school and other levies such as guard man fee, generator fee and development fee. All these were forms of extortion by the schools that we abolished.”
He added that the task force has also met with stakeholders in the education sector and mapped out modalities on how the private schools would be paying their staff salary.
He lamented how private schools were under paying their staff due to lack of laid down guidelines.