Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has said his administration will the return schools to missions, starting from September 2019.
Fayemi, who said this in Ado Ekiti on Friday while hosting the Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, Dr Samuel Uche, noted that the move is part of his effort to improve the quality of education in the state.
He promised that “the government will work out an efficient and workable model as practised in other states where schools had been transferred to the missions.”
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According to Fayemi, his government would pay the teachers and give the schools grants while the missions would take care of administration.
He said, “Anyone caught engaging in any criminal act will be made to face the consequences and addressed as a criminal irrespective of their tribe.”
On his part, the Prelate, who said the purpose of his visit was to pray for the governor and the state, made a case for the return of some Methodist schools in the state to the mission “so that Godly morals will further be instilled in the pupils.”
Uche described Fayemi as “a good product Ekiti State is lucky to have judging from his antecedents during his first term as governor and as Minister of Solid Minerals Development.”