The All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) has warned against scrapping the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) as recommended by the Oronsaye report, pleading with President Bola Tinubu to save the commission.
Briefing journalists on Thursday in Abuja, the National President of the union, Muhammad Musa, said without the commission, standards and quality would deteriorate in senior secondary schools across the country.
Musa explained that it was at the secondary education level that learners were provided with skills to be useful to self and society, hence that scrapping the commission would destroy the secondary education sector and frustrate the good structure already in place.
Recall that Tinubu a month ago ordered the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, and as a result, the government announced the merging, subsuming and scrapping of several agencies.
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Daily Trust reports that in 2011, former President Goodluck Jonathan established the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies, with Mr Steve Oronsaye as chairman.
The report listed NSSEC among agencies to be scrapped and its functions transferred to the Department of Basic and Secondary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education.
The ANCOPSS President and Principal Government Unity College, Nguru, Yobe State, Musa said if the Oronsaye report’s axe was allowed to fall on the commission, it would bring an end to the current sustained collaborative efforts between NSSEC and the states for repositioning the schools.
He said, “The scrapping, if done, will leave senior secondary education and technical vocational education and training as the only subsector without an intervention agency.’’
