Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja
The All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to save the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) from being scrapped, as recommended by the Oronsaye report.
The national president of the union, Muhammad Musa, who made the appeal in Abuja, stated that without the commission, standards and quality would irredeemably deteriorate in senior secondary schools across the country.
He said scrapping the commission would destroy the secondary education sector and frustrate the good structure already put in place.
The Oronsaye report recommended merging, subsuming, and scrapping several agencies. It listed NSSEC among those to be scrapped, and its functions were transferred to the Department of Basic and Secondary Education of the Federal Ministry of Education.
Musa, who is the president and principal of Unity College, Nguru in Yobe, warned that if the recommendation of the Oronsaye committee were carried out as it concerns the commission, it would end the current sustained collaborative efforts between NSSEC and the states for repositioning 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,” he said.
