All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) has urged President Bola Tinubu to save the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) from being scrapped as recommended by Oronsaye Report.
The national president of the union, Muhammad Musa who made this call yesterday in Abuja, said without the commission, standards and quality would deteriorate in senior secondary schools across the country.
Musa said it is at the secondary education level that learners are provided with skills to be useful to self, and the society.
He said scrapping the commission will destroy the secondary education sector and frustrate the good structure already put in place.
Tinubu had a month ago, ordered the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, as a result, the government announced the merging, subsuming and scrapping of several agencies.
In 2011, former President Goodluck Jonathan set up the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies, with Mr. Steve Oronsaye as the chairman.
The report listed NSSEC among agencies to be scrapped and functions transferred to the department of Basic and Secondary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education.
The president and principal Government Unity College, Nguru in Yobe State, said if the Oronsaye report‘s axe is allowed to fall on the commission, it will bring an end to the current sustained collaborative efforts between NSSEC and the states to reposition the schools.
“It is at the senior secondary education level that learners are provided with skills to be useful to self and the society.
“The scrapping, if done, will leave senior secondary education and Technical Vocational Education and Training, as the only subsector without an intervention agency.
Scrapping NSSEC would mean that senior secondary schools would be the only educational sub-sector without a body to provide funds for its development nationwide,“ he said.
