By Magnus Emuji / Rukevwe Adugbo
Delta State Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu has stressed the need for teachers to concentrate more in the area of ensuring positive impact on the overall well-being of the students as a deliberate strategy to take education system in the state to enviable height.
Ezewu stated this in her office in Asaba when the Organisation of Schools Owners of Nigeria (OSON) paid her a courtesy call.
The Secondary Education Commissioner who lauded the association for the visit , affirmed her resolve to partner with the stakeholders towards improving the education sector in the state.
While urging the management of public and private schools in the state to always guide the activities of pupils and students in their schools and give them useful counsels that would transform their lives, the Education Commissioner enjoined teachers and school administrators to have self discipline in accordance with their profession.
On the request of the organisation for the Ministry to address the alleged issue of multiple taxation by the State Government , the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Augustine Oghoro said that the ministry would interface with the State Board of Interval Revenue with a view to addressing the issue.
The State Chairman of the Organisation of School Owners of Nigeria (OSON) , Bishop Votu Vhoehen described the appointment of the Commissioner as an instrument of positive change in the education sector in the state even as he commended the Commissioner for granting private schools waiver for the payment of the Annual Renewal fee for 2022.
Vhoehen, who appealed to the ministry to offer them incentives as manifested in science equipment, equipping of the libraries, ICT equipment and teaching and learning aids, noted that government should exempt the private schools in the state from some levies just as the organisation maintained that it could amount to double taxation.