THE All Progressives Congress in Ekiti
State has expressed pleasure over the latest National Examinations
Council results placing the state on top of other states in performance.
The
APC attributed the feat to sound the education policy of the former
Governor Kayode Fayemi, which provided incentives for good learning
environment and provision of educational items that enhanced learning
among the students.
It said the explanation became imperative as
Governor Ayo Fayose was wont to claiming unmerited credits for Fayemi’s
achievements.
The APC cited the 2014 budget by Fayemi that was
adjudged the most effective and transparent in Nigeria by an
organisation, but which Fayose celebrated as his achievement.
The
National Examination Council on Friday released the results of the
Senior School Certificate Examination it conducted in and outside the
country between June and July this year, with Ekiti State having the
best performance with 96.48 per cent, followed by Edo State, which came
second with 96.31 per cent.
Reacting to the state’s performance,
the APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement that
the feat was attributable to the education policy instituted by Fayemi
that put life into educational administration and management in the
state.
He explained that Fayemi called an education summit to
develop a roadmap for quality education, which the former governor
implemented to the letter.
He said the foundation laid by the
administration created the environment for learning as never before,
resulting in the latest incredible performance by the students.
He also noted that the current success did not happen overnight but the result of long planning by Fayemi between 2011 and 2014.
Listing the incentives instituted by the former governor that had brought about the latest performance, Olatunbosun explained.
The
statement added: “Fayemi gave a laptop per child that exposed them to
study online and eradicated miracle centres while providing incentive to
teachers, including renovation of schools to enhance good learning
environment, and also approved special allowances for core subjects and
rural postings for teachers.
“Fayemi’s giant strides in education
made Ekiti one of the three states in the federation that benefitted
from the World Bank’s $50 million State Education Programme Investment
Project.
“He renovated 183 secondary schools and 836 primary
schools and provided other incentives, including establishment of
remedial colleges to cater for out-of-school students in the 16 local
governments, which made the state to record 52 per cent credit pass in
English and Maths in 2013 while the state also won many firsts in
various quiz competitions in the same year, topping it with a student
from Ikere High School who won the best male student in WAEC.”
Olatunbosun
regretted that while Fayemi introduced and sustained compulsory free
education at primary and secondary education levels, Fayose had
cancelled the policy, making pupils to pay taxes per term and teachers
remained unpaid for seven months.
Olatunbosun said this also led
to teachers’ strike that kept the students out of school for months,
adding that this could not have resulted in this successful outing.
He
said: “Fayemi administration of four years when the successful
students were in Junior secondary school, impacted well on them such
that they had a solid educational background which translated into the
latest success.
“Between 2011 and 2014, Fayemi was consistently
rewarding best hardworking teacher with a brand new car and paid WAEC
fees of students ranging from N86m to N140m, which Fayose has also
stopped.
“Fayemi’s administration was continuously organising
training programmes for the teachers, while 400 motorcycles were
distributed to teachers serving in rural areas, even as he distributed
20,000 sets of lockers and chairs to public schools across the state.
“He
delivered books worth N6m to the State Library Board to encourage
reading culture among teachers and students and promoted no fewer than
4,000 primary school teachers between 2010 and 2014, including Head
Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers, some of whom were demoted by Fayose
upon assumption of office.”
The APC spokesman added that teachers
benefited from the relativity pay for all categories of workers in the
public service and also benefited from the 27.5 per cent Teachers
Pecuniary Allowance, while Ekiti was the first in the South West to
implement the relativity pay, bringing the minimum wage from N7,500 to
N19,300 without owing teachers salaries.
Noting that Fayemi also
organised continuous capacity building programmes for teachers and
established intensive statewide coaching programme for SSCE/NECO and
JAMB candidates, Olatunbosun regretted that all the schemes had been
cancelled by Fayose, who was also owing teachers six months salary
arrears.
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